Duraid Munajim is a Toronto-based[1] film director and a freelance cinematographer.
Munajim is an Iraqi-Persian born in Kuwait in 1972,[2] to an Iraqi Arab father and Iranian Persian mother.
He began studying anthropology at Vanier College, Montreal but had later received his BFA in film production in 1997 from Concordia University, in Montreal in which he made his thesis film, Tempus Fugit.
In 2011 he served as Director of Photography on Buzkashi Boys, which was nominated for best live action short at the 2013 Oscars.
In 2012 Duraid worked again with Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty as a principal camera operator.