# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rayka-zehtabchi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:52:26.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rayka-zehtabchi"
name: "Rayka Zehtabchi"
slug: "rayka-zehtabchi"
description: "Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American filmmaker best known for her 2019 Academy Award-winning documentary short Period. End of Sentence., which addresses the topic of period poverty. Her previous film, Madaran, was an Iranian-language short about an Iranian mother who must decide whether to spare the life of her son's killer. Zehtabchi is the first Iranian-American woman to win an Academy Award. After the success of Period. End of Sentence, Zehtabchi collaborated with Planned Parenthood and We Testify to make a short film addressing abortion stigma, which was released in 2020. Her newest short film, Long Line of Ladies, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film won the award for Best Documentary Short at SXSW 2022."
tagline: "Iranian-American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/igMEKnKIEd0K2yKo2u9kELq8I9r.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1994"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.342441333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3593950/"
    handle:    "nm3593950"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.raykazehtabchi.com/"
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    title: "رائکا زہتابچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rayka Zehtabchi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "റെയ്ക സെതാബ്ഷി"
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    title: "Rayka Zehtabchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зехтабчи, Райка"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Rayka Zehtabchi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump