Azfar Rizvi

Rizvi is an award-winning Pakistani Canadian broadcaster who has produced and appeared in news and current affairs content for several television and digital networks. Apart from producing documentaries and teaching broadcast journalism, Rizvi has also collaborated with non-profits over the past few years delivering compelling digital advocacy campaigns and films.

Rizvi is a mixed media artist with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Five Project which harnesses the power of social media to increase community engagement in the fight to improve maternal health and reach MDG Five by 2015. His work was solicited by advocacy agencies and featured as awareness content on multiple platforms in the aftermath of the 2010 Floods-dubbed as ‘the worst floods in history’ by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Rizvi is a member of Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and DOC Toronto.