Jasmin Mozaffari

Jasmin Mozaffari is a Canadian film director and screenwriter of Canadian and Iranian heritage,[1][2] who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her debut feature film Firecrackers.[3]

Jasmin Mozaffari
NationalityCanadian
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2013–present

Early life

Jasmin was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her father (now deceased) was an Iranian immigrant who came to Canada from Tehran at the time of the Iranian Revolution.[2] Her mother is from Provost, Alberta. Jasmin grew up in Barrie, Ontario before moving to Toronto to attend Ryerson University for Film Studies.[2]

Career

Jasmin graduated from Ryerson University in 2013.[4] Her student thesis film, Firecrackers, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013.[1] After graduating, Jasmin directed the short films WAVE (2015) which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and sleep on the tracks (2018).

Firecrackers
Main article: Firecrackers (film)

Based on her short thesis film, Jasmin expanded Firecrackers into her first feature film. Firecrackers was made through the Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Fund.[2] The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival[5] and went on to screen around the world and won Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival.[6] In December 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its year end Canada's Top Ten list.[7]

The film was released in Canada and the US theatrically and became a New York Times Critic's Pick.[8]

Accolades

In March 2019, Jasmin won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. Her work has been praised by The New York Times,[8] Vulture,[9] the Los Angeles Times,[10] The Hollywood Reporter,[11] and Variety.[12]

In his review of Firecrackers, Peter Debruge of Variety called Jasmin a "major talent" and compared her to a "young Andrea Arnold."[12]

In March 2020, Jasmin was one of 8 writers to be selected to develop her next feature film through the Toronto International Film Festival's Writers' Studio.[13]

References
  1. ""The girls I grew up around weren't delicate creatures": Jasmin Mozaffari on TIFF Discovery title 'Firecrackers'". Screen Daily, September 25, 2018.
  2. "TIFF 2018: One to watch – the dynamite Jasmin Mozaffari and her feature debut Firecrackers". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2018.
  3. "Nominations aux prix Écrans canadiens: le Québec vole la vedette". TVA Nouvelles, February 7, 2019.
  4. "Firecrackers director Jasmin Mozaffari is the reel deal". Ryerson University. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  5. Wilner, Norman (2018-08-01). "TIFF 2018: Rob Stewart, Denys Arcand, Jennifer Baichwal films among Canadian titles". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  6. Keslassy, Elsa (2018-11-16). "'Firecrackers,' 'Skate Kitchen' Win Top Awards at Female-Centric Stockholm Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  7. Wilner, Norman (2018-12-05). "TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  8. Catsoulis, Jeannette (2019-07-11). "'Firecrackers' Review: Young, Angry and Trapped". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  9. Edelstein, David (2019-07-15). "Jasmin Mozaffari's Firecrackers Is a Debut Film to Watch". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  10. "Review: Canadian drama 'Firecrackers' marks the daring arrival of new talent". Los Angeles Times. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  11. "'Firecrackers': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  12. Debruge, Peter (2019-07-14). "Film Review: 'Firecrackers'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  13. Malyk, Lauren (6 February 2020). "Friedman wins 2020 TIFF-CBC screenwriter prize". Retrieved 2020-04-19.
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