About
Rayka Zehtabchi is an Oscar-winning Iranian-American director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short that won Jury awards at top film festivals and qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016. She won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 91st Academy Awards for Period. End of Sentence., a documentary about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad-making business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigmatize menstruation. Along with the film’s release, Rayka helped co-found the non-profit “The Pad Project” to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide.
Filmography
The Singers2026 · Executive Producer
You Know Where to Find Me2023 · Producer
The Old Young Crow2023 · Executive Producer
Long Line of Ladies2022 · Director, Producer
Are You Still There?2021 · Director, Writer
A Woman's Place2020 · Director
Just Hold On2020 · Director
Ours to Tell2020 · Director
(SHn(y)o͞of)2019 · Director, Producer
Mammoth2018 · Assistant Director
We Home2018 · Director
Period. End of Sentence.2018 · Director, Producer
Madaran2016 · Co-Producer, Director, Writer