SHEVAUN MIZRAHI

Sep. 15, 2020

Virtual Event

SHEVAUN MIZRAHI is a Turkish-American documentary filmmaker, named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces of Film in 2015. She received a Jury Special Mention Award at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival for her film Distant Constellation, as well as a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Distant Constellation, described by Vadim Rizov of Filmmaker Magazine as “a bracingly rigorous and visceral experience,” was shot in an Instabul retirement home, and explores themes of aging and memory. Nominated for a 2018 Independent Spirit Award, the film was produced by Deniz Buga and Shelly Grizim.