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Nazanin Nematollahi
Producer, Director
Nazanin moved to the US in 2015 to pursue her MA in Social Justice and Equity in Education and Documentary filmmaking at San Francisco State University. Nazanin promotes stories that inform, inspire, and provoke conversations. Her latest short documentary as a producer was The Color of Memories (2018), about disability, immigration, and music. She, as a producer, has been working on a feature documentary investigating the untold mysteries behind the secluded collection of Western art masterpieces in the Tehran Museum of Contompery Art vault. Her directorial debut projects the endeavor of two feminist Iranian visual artists, embracing different body images and challenging religious and political limitations and censorship.
Arash Maleki
Editor, Director
Born in Tehran, Arash Maleki is a graduate of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society in Filmmaking, Tehran Institute of Technology in Video Editing, and San Francisco State University with an MFA in Cinema. He is a film editor based in Los Angeles, known for I am My Own Mother, Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera, and The War to End All Wars.
Awards
Festival de Cannes, Cinéfondation 2018, Official Selection, I Am My Own Mother
Cinequest Film Festival, 2018, Official Selection, I Am My Own Mother
Mill Valley Film Festival, 2018, Official Selection, I Am My Own Mother
Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2019, Official Selection, I Am My Own Mother
Urbanworld Film Festival, 2018, Official Selection, I Am My Own Mother
SF Doc Fest, 2019, Official Selection, Guy Hircefeld: a guy with a camera
San Francisco International Jewish Film Festival 2019, Winner, Best Short Film, Guy Hircefeld: a guy with a camera
SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY 2019, Official Selection, Guy Hircefeld: a guy with a camera
Miami Independent Film Festival 2021, Official Selection, The War to End All Wars
Reale Film Festival Monthly Awards 2021, Winner, Best Documentary, The War to End All Wars
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