Turkish-American documentary filmmaker
Shevaun Mizrahi is a Turkish-American documentary filmmaker. She received a Jury Special Mention Award at the Locarno Film Festival 2017 for her documentary film Distant Constellation among many other awards including the Best Picture Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival 2018 and the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) 2018. Indiewire wrote, “Distant Constellation is one of the more exciting achievements in nonfiction cinema in recent memory." She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Film in 2015 and is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. In December 2018, she received the Best Cinematography Award from the International Documentary Association.
Biography.
Mizrahi grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her undergraduate education in cognitive neuroscience and English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated in fine arts from the film school at the New York University.
Awards.
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
Some other awards that she won are:
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