About Ariel Nasr
Born 2000. Ariel Nasr is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cinematographer.
Ariel Nasr is a Canadian documentary film director. He is most noted as director of the films The Boxing Girls of Kabul, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, and The Forbidden Reel, which was a winner of the Audience Award at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and as producer of Buzkashi Boys, which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013.
Nasr was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at the University of King's College.
His other films have included Good Morning Kandahar (2008),
In 2024 he won the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award for his feature film screenplay Daudistan.
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Who is Ariel Nasr?
Canadian documentary film director
When was Ariel Nasr born?
Ariel Nasr was born in 2000 in Halifax.
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Ariel Nasr is a film director, screenwriter, film producer and cinematographer.
What nationality is Ariel Nasr?
Ariel Nasr is Canadian.
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