Suroosh Alvi
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سروش علوی | |
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Alma mater | McGill University |
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Known for | Co-founder of VICE Media |
Children | 1 |
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Suroosh Alvi (
Early life
Alvi was born in Toronto, Canada, to Pakistani parents,[5] both of whom are academics; his mother is Sajida S. Alvi, whose focus is on Islamic studies and Mughal history[6] and who is now professor emerita at McGill University,[7] and his father is Sabir A. Alvi, professor emeritus in psychology at the University of Toronto.[6][8] Alvi studied philosophy at McGill University.[9]
Career
Alvi launched
In 2014, Alvi served as a guest curator for the PHI Centre in Montreal and oversaw a month's worth of programming.[10]
VICE Reporting
In 2006, as VICE was expanding from magazine publishing to video reporting, Alvi reported on a segment titled Gun Markets of Pakistan, in which he travelled to
VICE Music
In 2002, Alvi created
VICE Film
In 2007, Alvi co-directed and executive-produced Heavy Metal in Baghdad for VICE Films, in which he travels to Iraq and follows the heavy metal band Acrassicauda during the fall of Saddam Hussein amidst the Iraq War, beginning in 2003 after the United States-led invasion of Iraq. The film was an official selection at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, and was named Best Documentary at the 2008 Warsaw Film Festival.[23]
In 2012, Alvi along with director Andy Capper travelled VICE to Jamaica, where he produced the feature-length film, REINCARNATED, featuring Snoop Dogg. The film was accepted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and had its U.S. premiere at the 2013 SXSW festival.[24]
Personal life
Alvi resides in New York City. He is married,[25] and has a son.[6][26] He struggled with a heroin addiction in his youth, and was in recovery following rehabilitation when he co-founded VICE magazine in 1994.[27]
Filmography
Alvi has producer, executive producer, writer or director credits on a range of documentary films, documentary shorts and television series.[28]
Television
- The Vice Guide to Everything (2010)
- Vice Meets (2011)
- Upgrade (2011)
- Epicly Later'd (2011)
- Dalston Superstars (2011)
- Powder and Rails (2011)
- The Vice Guide to Travel (2011)
- Picture Perfect (2011)
- Art Talk (2011)
- Motherboard (2011)
- Behind the Seams (2012)
- Discotecture (2012)
- Far Out (2012)
- Vice (2013)
- Vice News (2014)
- Vice News: Russian Roulette — the Invasion of Ukraine (2014)
- Abandonware (2015)
- Moj Sport (2015)
- Cut-Off (2016)
- Fuck, That's Delicious (2016)
- Vice Essentials Canada (2016)
- Tattoo Age (2017)
- Vice News: Terror (2017)
- World of Vice (2017)
Documentaries
Feature-length
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2006)
- Heavy Metal in Istanbul (2008)
- North Korean Film Madness (2010)
- Aokigahara: Suicide Forest (2011)
- The Vice Guide to Congo (2011)
- Toxic Amazon (2011)
- Reincarnated (2012)
- Lil Bub and Friendz (2013)
- Svddxnly (2014)
- Cocaine and Crude (2014)
- Shelter (2016)
- VICE Guide to Iran (2020)
- Showgirls of Pakistan (2021)
Shorts
- Gun Markets of Pakistan (2006)
- Tokoloshe (2010)
- Life after Bin Laden in Pakistan (2011)
- Tokyo Rising (2011)
- The Rebels of Libya (2011)
- Rule Britannia: The British Wrester (2012)
- Vice Guide to Karachi: Battle of Lyari (2012)
- Cowboy Capitalists (2013)
- The Vice Podcast Show (2013)
- In Saddam's Shadow: Baghdad 10 Years After the Invasion (2013)
- Korean Poo Wine (2013)
- The Elmore B&S Ball (2013)
- My Life Online: The Grim Loner (2014)
- Blood Debt (2014)
- Rooted (2015)
- Inside the Monkey Lab (2015)
- Inside the Superhuman World of the Iceman (2015)
- Blast Fishing in Montenegro (2015)
- Valley of the Islamic Dolls (2015)
- Kanabis Ismedju Bola i Zakona (2015)
- Krivolovci: Hunting for Poachers in Siberia (2015)
- Svet Suspenzija/World of Suspension (2015)
- Izvan Granica Seksa (2016)
- Behind the Zero Line (2016)
- Making Contact (2017)
- Vice Talks Week with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2017)
- Turbotronik (2017)
- Izpravljanie Krivine (2017)
References
- ISBN 978-1-55022-415-3. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ^ Jaafar, Ali (22 June 2016). "Vice Media's Viceland To Launch In More Than 50 New Countries". Deadline. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Inside the world's deadliest terror groups". NewsComAu. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Alvi, Suroosh (7 July 2011). "Life after bin Laden in Pakistan". CNN. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Spike Jonze Spends Saturday with Shane Smith, VICE, retrieved 12 June 2013
- ^ a b c d "Ex Heroin Addict Turned Media Mogul, Outlook - BBC World Service". BBC.
- ISBN 0887069185.
- ^ "OISE: Retired Faculty". OISE. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Wisenthal, Lucas. "From Welfare to Media Empire". McGill News. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ a b Dunlevy, T'cha (29 March 2013). "VICE Knows No Boundaries". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Inside Vice's Effort to Reinvent The Evening News - The Bridge". The Bridge. 26 February 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (6 October 2017). "PBS & CBS Lead The Field Again At News & Documentary Emmys: Complete Winners List". Deadline. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "The Islamic State". Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "VICE Magazine Co-Founder Suroosh Alvi". CBC Radio. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "Watch: 'Crime And Punishment' In The Gaza Strip Revealed". HuffPost UK. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "The VICE Guide to Congo". Vice. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ VICE News (6 June 2014), VICE on HBO Debrief: Heroin Warfare, retrieved 16 November 2017
- ^ Dunlevy, T'Cha (1 April 2013). "VICE knows no boundaries with HBO show". canada.com. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "Our New Special 'TERROR' Investigates the Five Deadliest Terrorist Groups". Vice. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- Vice.com.
- ^ Hampp, Andrew (22 November 2011). "Vice Launches Three-Year Global Partnership With Warner Bros. Records". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 October 2016 – via BillboardBiz.
- ^ Hampp, Andrew (22 November 2011). "Vice Launches Three-Year Global Partnership With Warner Bros. Records". BillboardBiz. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Heavy Metal in Baghdad". Heavy Metal in Baghdad. 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Appelo, Tim (26 September 2012). "Filmmakers on Snoop Dogg's Jamaican Reincarnation". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Salisbury, Vanita (9 December 2014). "21 Questions with Suroosh Alvi". New York Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Wallace, Rick (28 December 2017). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Suroosh Alvi". TVOvermind. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "VICE founder Suroosh Alvi was an unemployed addict - now he's a media mogul". Stuff. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Suroosh Alvi". Vice. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
External links
- Suroosh Alvi at Vice.com
- Suroosh Alvi at IMDb
- Suroosh Alvi on Twitter