Zara Serabian-Arthur

Zara Serabian-Arthur is a non-fiction filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY and has been a member of Meerkat Media Collective since 2006. In both her independent and commissioned work, she is committed to using media strategically as a means to shift narratives and support social justice movements. Zara is a co-writer/co-director of the collective’s award-winning feature documentaries, STAGES and BRASSLANDS, as well as many independent documentary shorts, including CONSENSUS and INTO THE STREETS. Her editing work has been featured on the New York Times and National Geographic, and she worked as an additional editor on the feature documentaries UNTOUCHABLE and DARK MONEY (POV 2018). She has also directed, produced and edited dozens of commissioned short films, collaborating closely with non-profits, foundations and grassroots organizations, including the Tenement Museum, Ford Foundation, and Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung among many others. Alongside her filmmaking work, Zara is actively involved in the cooperative and solidarity economy movements, which work to build an economy based on values of social and racial justice, ecological sustainability, cooperation, mutualism, and democracy. She is a member of SolidarityNYC, where she has worked on mapping, organizing, and community-based research projects and is proud to be a Board Member of New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives, and a Peer Educator with the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City.