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Roya Akbari

Roya Akbari

Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies

Film and Media

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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PhD Student

Roya Akbari is a media artist, filmmaker, and writer. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies with a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art from the University of Toronto. Akbari鈥檚 research-creation examines the intersection of archive and media studies, diasporic studies, decolonial feminism, Indigeneity, and racial capitalism.

Akbari has worked with the Vulnerable Media Lab and has curated programs and written essays for educational guides about VIVO media archives related to gendered violence. Her curatorial essays have been published on VUCAVU鈥檚 website.

Akbari鈥檚 work is distributed by V-tape and has been exhibited at artist-run centres in Canada and screened at festivals internationally, including TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.