DIRECTOR BIO
Raghed Charabaty is an experienced Lebanese-Canadian film and series director (drama, comedy) based in Toronto and Beirut. Charabaty’s films have won at the Toronto International Film Festival: Canada’s Top Ten, and their repertoire of original works have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide. 
Charabaty was selected for the prestigious Canadian Film Centre's Director Lab 2023. Raghed holds a Masters in Film Production from York University (2019) where they received the SSHRC Award for their work, and taught film and screenwriting techniques. Charabaty is a fellow of the selective NETFLIX Banff DOVPP 2022 + 2023, and a graduate of the Warner Brothers x BIPOC Writers Lab 2022, where they developed original work for television. 
Raghed's films have been featured in Canadian Art Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, and Tribe Photo Magazine, and purchased for the permanent art collections at the Anna Leonowens and Saint Mary's U Art Galleries. 
Charabaty is fluent in English, French and Arabic. They are a professional screenwriter, has worked for clients including the UNESCO and Snoop Dogg, and served on the jury of multiple film festivals and awards competitions. Charabaty has written multiple feature films, created 14 original works, and served as a director on a number of award-winning Canadian television, comedy and drama projects.
Contact
Email: r.charabaty.ca@gmail.com
FILM PRIZES
ALIA (2015)
• Toronto International Film Festival: Canada’s Top Ten 2016 – Best Student Short Film: Runner-Up 
• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2015 – Best Student Short Film, National Competition
• Starfish Student Art Award 2015 – Winner 
A LETTER FROM THE ASHES (2023)
• Nominated for Best Canadian Short (Inside Out Film Festival 2023) 
YASMINE (2017)
• Lebanese International Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Cinematography
AMBER IN THE MOUNTAINS (2020)
• Golden Lenses Award 2020 - Best Animation
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) 
work in PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 
• 'Alia' (2015) - NSCAD University, Anna Leonowens Gallery – Halifax, Canada 
• 'Alia' (2015) - Saint Mary's University Art Gallery – Halifax, Canada


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

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
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