About:
Shirin Barghi is an Iranian journalist, audio producer and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. She currently works as a Senior Producer for BRIC TV, where she covers issues of social justice, immigration, inequality and more.
Her character-driven short documentaries have received four NY Emmy nominations, and her passion for bringing communities directly into the conversation have led her to produce or co-produce a number of town hall forums on topics including Women’s Rights, Islamophobia, the #MeToo movement, school segregation and police accountability. She was a producer on the team that won a 2018 NY Emmy in the Education/School Program Category for Class Divide: Breaking the Pattern of School Segregation.
Most recently, she is a producer of Brooklyn, USA -- a bi-weekly audiovisual magazine series that blends short documentary, hyperlocal journalism, personal narratives, sound art and audiovisual experimentation.
A graduate of New York University and The New School, her writing and visual work have appeared in the Guardian, Souciant Magazine, The Huffington Post, Aljazeera, Vox and beyond. She is currently co-directing a documentary about The Sirens, the longest running womens’ motorcycle club in New York.
She can be reached at bbshirin@gmail.com