Suroosh Alvi is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker.
10 Facts About Suroosh Alvi
2.
Suroosh Alvi is the co-founder of Vice Media, a digital media and broadcasting brand that operates in more than 50 countries.
3.
Suroosh Alvi launched VICE magazine with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1994.
4.
In 2014, Suroosh Alvi served as a guest curator for the PHI Centre in Montreal and oversaw a month's worth of programming.
5.
Suroosh Alvi has produced and hosted documentaries for VICE on HBO, VICE News and the VICE Guide to Travel series.
6.
In 2002, Suroosh Alvi created VICE Music, the company's record label which has partnered with over 50 artists and sold more than 7 million albums worldwide.
7.
In 2011, Suroosh Alvi launched a partnership between VICE Music and Warner Bros.
Related searches
Saddam Hussein 8.
In 2007, Suroosh Alvi co-directed and executive-produced Heavy Metal in Baghdad for VICE Films, in which he travels to Iraq and follows the heavy metal band Acrassicauda during the fall of Saddam Hussein amidst the Iraq War, beginning in 2003 after the United States-led invasion of Iraq.
9.
Suroosh Alvi struggled with a heroin addiction in his youth, and was in recovery following rehabilitation when he co-founded VICE magazine in 1994.
10.
Suroosh Alvi has producer, executive producer, writer or director credits on a range of documentary films, documentary shorts and television series.