Raphael Assaf

Raphael Assaf is a director and producer, known for the multi award winning features films The Zero Sum (2009), I Am My Father (2001), and Devil Winds (2003). After being an assistant to producer Michael Derbas on various international projects, he and his wife went "off grid" for 7 years to the Canadian Rockies to bring up their 2 children. In the fall of 2015, he could be heard on CBC radio alongside a local Rabbi defending an offer to house Syrian refugees. Raphael is of Lebanese, Irish Catholic and Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 2016, after returning to his hometown of Ottawa, Canada, Raphael obtained a Private Investigators License and documented the life of an Uber driver before approaching City Hall with a proposal to help solve the taxi drivers' crisis. The family now divide their time between Canada and the UK, where Raph is currently developing new projects and lecturing at various universities.