Talent Guide

Razi Jafri

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2022

Bio

Razi Jafri is a Detroit-based documentary filmmaker. His work focuses on race, religion, immigration, democracy, and the changing cultural landscape in America. Razi’s documentary films include, Hamtramck, USA, which made its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival (2020), Ashura in Detroit which premiered at the Freep Film Festival (2021), and The Moon on My Uniform, a 2022 ITVS grantee and currently in post-production, is anticipated for a PBS broadcast in the Fall of 2023. Razi holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MFA both from the University of Michigan.

Current Project

EJ Lee: All-American

Logline

EJ Lee, a 60-year-old Louisiana legend and former All-American once called by Sports Illustrated as the “Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women’s basketball,” has been overlooked her entire coaching career; but she still hopes for her life-long dream of becoming a college head coach. However, EJ must first transform a small private high school girl’s team that just recently learned how to dribble a basketball.