Sara Jade Alfaro-Dehghani

Sara Jade Alfaro-Dehghani is filmmaker and writer hailing from Oshawa, Ontario. She began making films in Montreal while studying at McGill University, developing her short-form work with commercial and music video projects after moving to Toronto in 2017. She directs short form commercial and music videos on the director roster at MERCHANT. Sara’s films explore unique experiences within multi-cultural families - often stemming from her upbringing with an Iranian mother and Mexican father. She frequently writes about language, gender and domestic family dynamics, within a whimsical and dramatic lens.

In addition to filmmaking, Sara is also devoted to outreach and education, and develops workshops and programming for underrepresented filmmaking communities. When she’s not filmmaking, Sara is amateur metal detecting and raising bees at the family farm.