Shirin Raban is a cine-ethnographer who teaches courses in the history and practice of graphic design at University of Southern California, UCLA Extension and California State University Northridge. In 2014, Shirin received her MVA in Visual Anthropology from USC. Her Thesis film, “The Fifth Question: Why is this Passover different?” is about the evolving cultural identity of her own children in Los Angeles. The film won the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award, and was selected as Semi-Finalist at the San Francisco Iranian Film Festival. It was screened at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, USC Casden Institute, UCLA Hillel, USC Hillel and Adat Shalom Temple. In 2015, Shirin created the award-winning documentary film, "Between the Shells" about the life and art of Jalil Harooni an Iranian-American Jewish master seashell artist. She is currently working on her feature documentary film, "My Lost Iran" about an Iranian Jewish General who became an American citizen.