About The Host
Suroosh Alvi is the Founder of VICE Media, a critically acclaimed journalist, and producer.
Founded as a punk magazine in Montreal, Quebec in 1994, VICE is currently headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. VICE has over 3,000 employees and operates in more than 35 territories across the globe. VICE is a news, content and culture hub, and a leading producer of award-winning video, reaching young people onall screens across an unrivaled global network. As a journalist, Alvi has reported from all over the world including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and the Gaza Strip. He was a regular host of the Emmy award winning VICE on HBO show, is a contributor to VICE News, and is an executive producer on the popular VICE TV series...
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Founded as a punk magazine in Montreal, Quebec in 1994, VICE is currently headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. VICE has over 3,000 employees and operates in more than 35 territories across the globe. VICE is a news, content and culture hub, and a leading producer of award-winning video, reaching young people on all screens across an unrivaled global network. As a journalist, Alvi has reported from all over the world including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and the Gaza Strip. He was a regular host of the Emmy award winning VICE on HBO show, is a contributor to VICE News, and is an executive producer on the popular VICE TV series Fuck That's Delicious. In 2017, Alvi also produced and hosted Terror, a five-part series examining terrorism in radical Islamic groups throughout the world today. For the series, Alvi reported on the ground from Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Yemen, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best News or Information Program in 2018. Alvi is currently the host of The Short List with Suroosh Alvi, in which he is curating a collection of the world’s best documentaries.
Alvi's film credits include the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, which he co-directed and executive produced. The film, which followed an Iraqi metal band for the years after Saddam Hussein's fall from power in 2003, was an official selection at the Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals and was named Best Documentary at the Warsaw Film Festival. Alvi went on to produce the feature-length documentary Reincarnated featuring Snoop Lion, which was also featured at the Toronto Film Festival and premiered at the 2013 SXSW Festival. Alvi was also an executive producer on the feature film Mogul Mowgli, directed by Bassam Tariq and starring Riz Ahmed. The film premiered in the Panorama strand at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Prize.
In addition, during his uninterrupted tenure with the company throughout its growth, Alvi added a music label to the company in 2002, breaking diverse and groundbreaking acts like Action Bronson, Black Lips, Chromeo, Bloc Party, The Streets and Death From Above 1979.
Prior to founding VICE, Alvi attended college at McGill University in Montreal, where he studied Philosophy, then went on to drop out of grad school. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and two children.
About the series
The Short List with Suroosh Alvi is a collection of some of the world’s best documentaries, curated by VICE founder Suroosh Alvi. Each episode features a full documentary accompanied by Alvi in conversation with the filmmakers and the films’ subjects.
In his conversations with the filmmakers Suroosh explores the themes of the films, unpacks the journey the filmmakers embarked on when creating their projects, and delves into the documentaries’ impact on audiences.
This series aims to take conversations usually only privy to the film festival crowd and go deeper, sharing them with millions of VICE viewers around the world. These documentaries go beyond parachute journalism — they are immersive insights into global issues and subcultures, characteristic of VICE.
