Roxy Rezvany

Roxy Rezvany is a British filmmaker of Iranian-Malaysian-Chinese descent, born and raised in Brent, London.

Her debut short, Little Pyongyang was about the largest community of North Korean refugees in Europe. It premiered in competition at CPH: Dox 2018, was selected at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hawaii International FF, San Francisco Doc Stories, and Aesthetica Film Festivals, and screened at the Museum of Tolerance in LA, and IFC in New York.

It won Best Documentary at The Smalls Film Festival 2018, Best Director at UnderWire Festival 2018, Best Cinematography at the Social Impact In Media awards 2019, and was distributed online via The Guardian Documentaries. It has been named one of the best documentaries available online by Wired, and was featured on BBC World News.

Her second short documentary, WIFI RIDER (2020), which she was awarded a One World Media fellowship to develop, premiered on Topic as part of Roger Ross Williams’ ‘One Story Up’ series and was winner of the Torino Short Film market.

She was commissioned by the Mayor of London’s ‘Borough of Culture’ programme to write and direct her first short scripted film PHOTO BOOTH, and has also directed and co-written the short, HONESTY, which was commissioned by BBC Film and BFI Network and premiered as part of the London Film Festival's 'London Calling' programme.

Roxy was selected as a Future Producer by Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017, and was recognised as a director in It’s Nice That Magazine’s 2018 Creative Review, was on the cover of Broadcast Magazine’s 2018 Hot Shots issue, was named one of the 200 Women Redefining the Creative Industries by The Dots, and was chosen for the 11th edition of Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network “Selected” exhibition in 2021. 

She has several years of production under her belt, having also produced & directed for the Barbican, Tate, BBC3, BBC4, VICE, and Channel 4.