How Did Period Awareness Earn You An Oscar? with Rayka Zehtabchi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

May 01, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 67

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Rayka Zehtabchi is an award-winning Iranian-American film director. Her film Period: End of Sentence won the 2019 Oscar for Documentary Short. Rayka joins Jonathan to talk about the filmmaking process, how the production of Period: End of Sentence came about, connecting with the film’s subjects, her history with directing, and more.

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