Jared Raab

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Jared Raab is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, [1] best known for his work on the television series Nirvanna the Band the Show . [2]

Originally from Millbrook, Ontario, Raab studied film at York University. [3] He made a number of short films before breaking through to wider attention with his 2011 short The Revenge Plot, which won the Fan Favorite award at the 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. [4] For a number of years thereafter he was a director of music videos [5] for artists such as Born Ruffians, Arkells, Ohbijou, Diamond Rings, PS I Love You, Snailhouse, Young Rival and Fast Romantics. He received two Prism Prize nominations as a director of music videos, in 2017 for July Talk's "Picturing Love" [6] and in 2021 for Andy Shauf's "Clove Cigarette". [7]

He was cinematographer on Matt Johnson's films The Dirties [8] and Operation Avalanche [9] prior to Johnson and Jay McCarrol creating Nirvanna the Band the Show, for which Raab was both a cinematographer and one of the writers.

He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for Nirvanna the Band the Show, receiving nods at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for "The Bean" and at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for "The Book", [10] and a nominee for Best Direction in a Documentary Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for This Is Pop . [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Ian Sandwell, "The Dirties: Evan Morgan, Jared Raab". Screen Daily , July 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ Nick Douglas, "How to Make a TV Show Backwards with ‘Nirvanna the Band’". Vulture , February 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ "University film project shown at Cinema 379". Peterborough Examiner , June 22, 2005.
  4. ↑ Melissa Leong, "'I thought our cinema was insular.Boy was I wrong'; RBC prize announces top emerging talent". National Post , September 8, 2011.
  5. ↑ Ben Rayner, "Colin Medley, Jared Raab - Music Video Directors". Toronto Star , January 2, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Prism Prize Reveals 2017's Top 10 Finalists". Exclaim! , April 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ Alex Nino Gheciu, "These Are the Top 20 Canadian Music Videos Nominated for the 2021 Prism Prize". Complex , April 29, 2021.
  8. ↑ James Adams, "A bravura debut for an up-and-coming Canadian". The Globe and Mail , October 4, 2013.
  9. ↑ Calum Marsh, "Matt Johnson's space odyssey: How the Toronto director tricked NASA into helping him film his Sundance-bound epic". The Globe and Mail , January 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Brent Furdyk, "2019 Canadian Screen Awards: Complete List Of Winners From Televised Gala". ET Canada , March 31, 2019.
  11. ↑ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada , February 15, 2022.
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