Rayka Zehtabchi is an Oscarwinning IranianAmerican 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 padmaking business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and destigmatize menstruation Along with the films release Rayka helped cofound the nonprofit The Pad Project to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide Raykas passion is telling human stories that bring awareness and action to littleknown social causes In both documentary and narrative she brings a naturalistic approach to her storytelling striving for honesty and intimacy on screen
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