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Jared Raab
Ontario, Canada
Jared Raab is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, best known for his work on the television series Nirvanna the Band the Show. Originally from Millbrook, Ontario, Raab studied film at York University. He made a number of short films before breaking through to wider attention with his 2011 short The Revenge Plot, which won the Fan Favorite award at the 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. For a number of years thereafter he was a director of music videos for artists such as Born Ruffians, Arkells, Ohbijou, Diamond Rings, PS I Love You, Snailhouse, Young Rival and Fast Romantics. He received two Prism Prize nominations as a director of music videos, in 2017 for July Talk's "Picturing Love" and in 2021 for Andy Shauf's "Clove Cigarette". He was cinematographer on Matt Johnson's films The Dirties and Operation Avalanche prior to Johnson and Jay McCarrol creating Nirvanna the Band the Show, for which Raab was both a cinematographer and one of the writers. He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for Nirvanna the Band the Show, receiving nods at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for "The Bean" and at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for "The Book", and a nominee for Best Direction in a Documentary Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for This Is Pop.
Acting credits
7.6When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2026
6.1In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
Operation Avalanche
2016
NRMusicians Matt and Jay step away from their quest for the Rivoli to conquer various Toronto landmarks and seasonal traditions through a series of misguided, high-energy excursions and chaotic improvisations.
Nirvana the Band the Show the Adventures
2010
Behind the camera
6.3The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
The Dirties
2013
4.0Andie saves Ryan from a car wreck, sparking a tumultuous year that might just prove life could be great.
Middle Life
2025
NRTwo American soldiers hunting for buried treasure in Iraq meet a stranger in the dunes.
Shubadak
2009
10.0Beauty’s Pride is an evocative short film to accompany Born Ruffians’ new album by the same name.
Beauty's Pride
2025
A disturbed man threatens his neighbour to stop an amusing story getting out.
A Pretty Funny Story
2012
NRMusicians Matt and Jay step away from their quest for the Rivoli to conquer various Toronto landmarks and seasonal traditions through a series of misguided, high-energy excursions and chaotic improvisations.
Nirvana the Band the Show the Adventures
2010
NRWinner of the Toronto International Film Festival's 2011 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition Fan Favourite Award. After Matt and his friends are dissed in the schoolyard by a group of girls, they set to work on an elaborate and merciless plan for revenge.
The Revenge Plot
2011