Roxy Rezvany

BIOGRAPHIE

Roxy is a British filmmaker of Iranian-Malaysian-Chinese descent, born and raised in Brent, London, who has been working in film and video production for eight years. Her work aims to expand people’s perception of British identity, particularly as a someone of mixed immigrant parentage, and to bring marginalised narratives to the mainstream. She was recognised as director of the year in It’s Nice That’s Creative Review of 2018, was on the cover of Broadcast’ Magazine’s ‘Hot Shots’ 2018 issue, and named by The Dots as one of 200 women redefining the creative industries. She was selected in 2017 by Sheffield International Documentary Festival as one of their ‘Future Producers’ in support of her promise as a feature filmmaker, and the ‘Modern Tales’ talent scheme for long- form scripted development as a writer. She’s made films for the Barbican, Tate and Victoria Miro Galleries as a producer and director respectively, and her work has been broadcast on BBC, Channel 4, VICE. Her debut short film, LITTLE PYONGYANG (2018), premiered in competition at CPH: Dox Festival, and won Best Documentary at The Smalls Film Festival, Best Director at UnderWire Festival, Best Cinematography at the Social Impact In Media awards. It screened at Oscar qualifying Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hawaii International Film Festival, Aesthetica and LSFF. It has gone on tour at further festivals and film events at New York’s IFC Center, Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance, and San Francisco Film Festival’s Doc Stories. The film was featured on BBC World News, and named by Wired UK as one of the best films streaming online. Her second short documentary, WIFI RIDER, was about a teenage Palestinian artist and premiered on Topic as part of Roger Ross Williams’ ONE STORY UP series. She is about to start production on a BFI-funded short scripted film, THE AUDITION.

FILMOGRAPHIE