Razi Jafri is a Detroit-based documentary filmmaker and producer. His films have covered issues across democracy, human rights, elections, refugees, and America’s changing cultural landscape. His directorial debut, Hamtramck, USA, premiered at the SXSW film festival and was broadcast on the PBS program America ReFramed. Razi produced Three Chaplains, which had a national broadcast on the PBS program Independent Lens. He is also the producer of Rouge which had its premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival. Razi’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the Sundance Institute, and others. He has been awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Impact Partners, the Salzburg Global Forum, the Kresge Foundation, the Knight-Sundance Fellowship, the Sundance Documentary Producers Lab+Fellowship, and the Sundance-Disney Fellowship. Razi received a BS in engineering and an MFA from the University of Michigan.

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ABOUT Uncommitted

Uncommitted follows Arab and Muslim American activists who launched a historic protest vote during the 2024 U.S. election, challenging the Democratic Party’s silence on Gaza. Centered in Dearborn and at the DNC in Chicago, the film captures their courage, backlash, and fight to redefine democracy and political inclusion in America.

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Film

Uncommitted

Program Affiliation

Firelight Fund

Cohort Year

2025

Instagram

@rajafri