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Shasha Nakhai

Shasha Nakhai

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Shasha Nakhai is a Filipino-Iranian Canadian film director, most noted as codirector with Rich Williamson of the 2021 film Scarborough. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for Best Director, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. A partner with Williamson in the production firm Compy Films, she first became known for her 2018 documentary film Take Light, which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. She was also a producer of Williamson's short documentary film Frame 394, which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shasha Nakhai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Shasha Nakhai

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Director

Three kids in a low-income neighborhood who find friendship and community in an unlikely place.

Love Letters from Everest

Love Letters from Everest

Producer

A long-distance love story unfolds via letters exchanged during the 1956 Everest expedition.

Director

TAKE LIGHT is a look at the tangled wires of Nigeria's electricity crisis, told through the everyday trials and tribulations of a charismatic electrician.

Post Production Supervisor

As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to enormous depths without an oxygen supply. Using breathing techniques derived from yoga, he went to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—depths no one had considered to be within the bounds of human possibility. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a vagabond, but above all, a man who believed in testing the limits of experience. This visually stunning tribute shows a man’s quest to be at one with the vastness of the ocean and to have no fear of the abyss within, where lurks serenity, freedom and finally, death.

Thirty Eight Minutes

Thirty Eight Minutes

Producer

A snapshot into a brief moment in time when paradise was lost. A diverse set of characters re-enact and reflect on the spur of the moment decisions they made during Hawaii’s 2018 false missile alert.

Thirty Eight Minutes

Thirty Eight Minutes

Director

A snapshot into a brief moment in time when paradise was lost. A diverse set of characters re-enact and reflect on the spur of the moment decisions they made during Hawaii’s 2018 false missile alert.