Suroosh Alvi

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Suroosh Alvi

Born March 26, 1969 · Canada (age 57)

Suroosh Alvi (born 26 March 1969) is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker. He is a co-founder of VICE Media, a digital media and broadcasting brand that at its height of operation was distributed in over 50 countries. Alvi was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Pakistani parents, and launched VICE magazine with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes in Montreal in 1996, after the three men bought its precursor, V…

Known For

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother · 2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
★ 7.22026
MovieActionCrime
Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.
Mogul MowgliMogul Mowgli · 2020
Mogul Mowgli
★ 6.32020
MovieMusicDrama
Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down, forcing him to move back in with his family. He tries to find himself between an international music career and Pakistani family traditions.
ShelterShelter · 2017
Shelter
★ 4.52017
MovieDocumentary
At the Covenant House, located on the outskirts of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, the doors never close, and there is always room for one more. On any given day, a constant stream of young people carrying everything they own in plastic garbage bags fills the courtyard. The prospective residents are just teenagers, but have already been labeled drug addicts, schizophrenics, criminals and outcasts. As one staff member puts it, “the most damaged population of youth that exists in society today”. Filming over the course of a full year, brothers Brent and Craig Renaud tell the raw and emotional stories of the incredible kids who seek shelter at the Covenant House, and the staff struggling to work miracles everyday on their behalf.
Beautiful LiverpoolBeautiful Liverpool · 2011
Beautiful Liverpool
2011
MovieDocumentary
There are more gyms and tanning salons per head in Liverpool than anywhere else in the UK. We meet the eccentrics that define Europe's capital city of beauty, including: tan-obsessed Carolyn, who's willing to inject herself with chemicals to darken her skin, Liverpool's "King of Bling", a celebrity hairdresser, and many more.
Meet Me in the BathroomMeet Me in the Bathroom · 2022
Meet Me in the Bathroom
★ 5.42022
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
You Resemble MeYou Resemble Me · 2022
You Resemble Me
★ 6.42022
MovieDrama
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
Moments Like This Never LastMoments Like This Never Last · 2021
Moments Like This Never Last
★ 6.12021
MovieDocumentary
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.
Heavy Metal in BaghdadHeavy Metal in Baghdad · 2007
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
★ 7.32007
MovieDocumentaryMusic
The story of Iraq's only heavy metal band and their fight to play music.

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ShelterShelter · 2017
Shelter
★ 4.52017
MovieDocumentary
At the Covenant House, located on the outskirts of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, the doors never close, and there is always room for one more. On any given day, a constant stream of young people carrying everything they own in plastic garbage bags fills the courtyard. The prospective residents are just teenagers, but have already been labeled drug addicts, schizophrenics, criminals and outcasts. As one staff member puts it, “the most damaged population of youth that exists in society today”. Filming over the course of a full year, brothers Brent and Craig Renaud tell the raw and emotional stories of the incredible kids who seek shelter at the Covenant House, and the staff struggling to work miracles everyday on their behalf.

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