Shirin Raban is a graphic design educator and cine-ethnographer. Ms. Raban has been teaching courses in the history and practice of graphic design at California State University Northridge (CSUN) and UCLA Extension since 2008. She has created visual branding, packaging, and advertising for Mattel, Fox Family Channel, Korbel Champagne and other companies. In 2014 Ms. Raban received her MA in Visual Anthropoligy from University of Southern California (USC). Her MA Thesis film, "The Fifth Question: Why is this Passover different?" was screened at the USC Casden (Religious) Institute, USC and UCLA Hillel, USC Cinema School, UCLA Near Eastern Studies and Adat Shalom Temple. received the Feature Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award (HIIDA). At USC she won the Viewer's Choice Award for the USC Shoah Foundation Student Voices Short Film Contest. She created the promotional short film, "VAPAE: The Making of a Teaching Artist" for the UCLA Art and Architecture Art Teaching Minor Program. She is currently working a new ethnographic documentary about an Iranian-American Jewish artist who grew up during the time of WWII and Holocaust.
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