Peter Mishara (born May 26, 1976) is an American-Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted as co-director with Omar Majeed of the 2024 documentary film Disco's Revenge.Matthew Simpson, "'DISCO'S REVENGE' Gets the Last Laugh". Exclaim!, February 11, 2025. The film was a nominee for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Directors Guild of Canada awards,Connie Thiessen, "Sweet Angel Baby leads DGC Awards’ film nominations". Broadcast Dialogue, September 20, 2024. and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.Pat Mullen, "The Tragically Hip, Okurimono Lead Canadian Screen Award Documentary Nominees". Point of View, March 26, 2025.
Born and raised in New York City,David Friend, "Doc filmmakers on how a dark chapter in music history led to 'Disco's Revenge'". Pique Newsmagazine, January 7, 2025. he was educated at Temple University and the University of Southern California before moving to Toronto in 2010 after marrying Canadian film producer Christina Piovesan.
In 2012 he received a grant from the Harold Greenberg Fund and The Movie Network toward the production of his first short film,Danielle Ng See Quan, "Three filmmaker teams to receive $20,000 from Short Film Program". Playback, May 9, 2012. which was released in 2014 as Sprnva.
Mishara and Majeed collaborated on the 2018 documentary web series The Artists: The Pioneers Behind the Pixels, for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Web Series, Non-Fiction at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards recognize Digital Storytelling". Broadcast Dialogue, March 29, 2019.
In 2021 Mishara received a grant from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival toward the production of a forthcoming documentary about underground hip-hop musician Divine Styler.Liza Sardi, "In brief: Cineflix partners with L.A. prodco on docuseries". Playback, November 8, 2021.
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