How Did Period Awareness Earn You An Oscar? with Rayka Zehtabchi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Rayka Zehtabchi is an award-winning Iranian-American film director. Her film Period: End of Sentence won the 2019 Oscar for Documentary Short. Rayka joins Jonathan to talk about the filmmaking process, how the production of Period: End of Sentence came about, connecting with the film’s subjects, her history with directing, and more. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:03.3	I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant
0:08.0	expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.5	On today's episode, I'm joined by Raika Zatabji, Oscar-winning director of Period and
0:16.0	of Sentence.
0:17.0	We dive into the Iranian American director's career and how the film should light on
0:21.2	differences in stigma of a woman having her period and how the pad project fights for
0:26.0	feminine hygiene around the world.
0:27.6	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:31.5	This is Jonathan Vaness and this week I'm so excited to, you are a first for actually
0:37.8	your way, a bunch of firsts for getting curious, but you're the first Oscar winner here.
0:43.0	Amazing.
0:44.0	And which is major.
0:46.6	And so welcome to the podcast Raika Zatabji, the director of Period and of Sentence, winner
0:52.5	of documentary short at the 2019 Oscars and you're an Iranian American filmmaker.
1:01.6	Yes.
1:02.6	Now this is one thing about you that I'm obsessed with.
1:04.3	Quite an introduction.
1:05.3	Was it?
1:06.3	Oh my thank you.
1:07.3	Did I nail it?
1:08.3	You nailed it.
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