Photographed by Bernard Okulaja

CONTACT INFO


r.charabaty.ca@gmail.com

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Raghed (Ray) Charabaty is a filmmaker based in Toronto. Charabaty’s films have won at TIFF: Canada’s Top Ten, Festival du Nouveau Cinema and the Starfish Awards.

Charabaty is an alumnus of the CFC Director's Lab 2023 (Canadian Film Centre). Raghed holds an MFA in Film from York University (2019) and a BFA with a minor in Art History from NSCAD U. Charabaty is a two-time fellow of the Netflix-Banff Pitch Program, as well as the BIPOC TV&Film x WarnerBros: Episodic Drama Writers Lab 2022.

Raghed is a recipient of the prestigious SSHRC Award in Honour of Nelson Mandela. Their work can also be found at the Anna Leonowens and SMU Art Galleries, and has been featured in Canadian Art Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, and Tribe Photo Magazine. Originally from Lebanon, Charabaty is also fluent in French and Arabic.

RECENT SELECTIONS

• Spindle Films Foundation - Director's Lab 2024

• Canadian Film Centre (CFC) - Director's Lab 2023

• Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices - Pitch Program 2022 + 2023

• BIPOC TV & Film x WarnerBros. Canada - Episodic Writers Lab 2022

• Video Portrait of Tim Whiten, Governor General's Award Recipient 2023

• Video Portrait of Deanna Bowen, Governor General's Award Recipient 2020

FILMOGRAPHY

• Men on the Moon - short fiction, 2024 (coming soon)

• Aliens in Beirut - short fiction, 2024 (coming soon)

• A Letter from the Ashes – short doc, 2023

• Project Baba – mid-length doc, 2022

• Plume – short animation, 2021

• Amber in the Mountains – short animation, 2020

• Of Sand & Gold – mid-length doc, 2019

• Yasmine – short fiction, 2017

• Deema – short fiction, 2016

• Alia – short fiction, 2015

SOFTWARE

• Screenwriting and Story Coordination: Final Draft

• Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut)

• Sound Design & Mix: Adobe Audition, Logic Pro

• 2D Animation & Graphic Design: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator

• Coloring: DaVinci Resolve

WORK IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 

• 'Alia' (2015) - NSCAD University, Anna Leonowens Gallery – Halifax, Canada 

• 'Alia' (2015) - Saint Mary's University Art Gallery – Halifax, Canada

FILM AWARDS

ALIA (short, 2015)

• TIFF: Canada’s Top Ten 2016 – Best Student Short Film: Runner-Up 

• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2015 – Best Student Short Film

• Starfish Student Art Award 2015 – Winner

A LETTER FROM THE ASHES (short, 2023)

• Nominated for Best Canadian Short (Inside Out Film Festival 2023) 


YASMINE (short, 2017)

• Lebanese International Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Cinematography

PANELS

• Panelist - JHI Patching Seas of War Exhibition & Symposium:
  'To Carve a Mountain' - Raghed Charabaty & Dr. Dina Georges

• Panelist - SING! Festival, Animator on 'Overgrown' (Cai Scott-Grimes) 2022 & 2023

• Panelist - Reelworld FIlm Festival, Sound Designer on ‘Comb Sister’ (Atefeh Khademolreza) 2021

• Panelist - Saint Mary's Art Gallery 2016, 
  ‘Disoriented’: Featured Filmmaker ('Alia') alongside Jamelie Hassan

AWARDS

• SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Award in Honour of Nelson Mandela (2018)

• SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Award (2017)

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award (2018) 

• York University Graduate Fellowship (2018 & 2019) 

• Arthur Lismer Award for Academic Excellence (2016)