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Excellence in Feature Filmmaking

Rizwan Manji

Rizwan Manji received a Best Guest Actor nomination at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards for his portrayal of Ray Butani, Schitt’s Creek jack-of-all-trades. The critically acclaimed CBC/Pop TV show dominated the 2020 Emmy race winning Best Comedy.  

Manji is perhaps best known for playing Rajiv Gidwani, the hysterically officious, scheming assistant manager of a call center in the NBC comedy Outsourced. He is currently in Sony Affirm’s Journey to Bethlehem a live-action Christmas musical adventure, now streaming, starring Antonia Bandaras as King Herod with Manji as Gaspar, one of the three wise men. 

He can also be seen in Mustache along with starring Atharva Verma and Alicia Silverstone. This coming of age movie was written and directed by Imran J. Khan and won the 2023 Audience Award in the Narrative Feature competition at SxSW

FILM & TV credits include: The Magicians, Mr. Robot, 
ArrestedDevelopment, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Tiger Hunter, and Paterson.

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