Jared Raab

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Jared Raab is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, best known for his work on the television series Nirvanna the Band the Show. Originally from Millbrook, Ontario, Raab studied film at York University. He made a number of short films before breaking through to wider attention with his 2011 short The Revenge Plot, which won the Fan Favorite award at the 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. For a number of years thereafter he was a director of music videos for artists such as Born Ruffians, Arkells, Ohbijou, Diamond Rings, PS I Love You, Snailhouse, Young Rival and Fast Romantics. He received two Prism Prize nominations as a director of music videos, in 2017 for July Talk's "Picturing Love" and in 2021 for Andy Shauf's "Clove Cigarette". He was cinematographer on Matt Johnson's films The Dirties and Operation Avalanche prior to Johnson and Jay McCarrol creating Nirvanna the Band the Show, for which Raab was both a cinematographer and one of the writers. He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for Nirvanna the Band the Show, receiving nods at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for "The Bean" and at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for "The Book", and a nominee for Best Direction in a Documentary Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for This Is Pop.Read more

Movies & web series

Beauty's Pride

Nirvana the Band the Show

Nirvanna the Band the Show

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

BlackBerry

Cursed Films

The Dirties

V/H/S/94

Operation Avalanche

A Pretty Funny Story

This Is Pop

For Heaven's Sake

Mouthpiece

Fig Trees

Photo Booth

Middle Life

July Talk: Love Lives Here

Three Walls

The Revenge Plot

Nirvana the Band the Show the Adventures

Shubadak

Nirvana the Band the Show: Live @ the Rivoli

Untitled Matt Johnson Film

Schiller Park