Awards
- April 2008 Audience Choice Award for Mystic Iran at Noor Iranian Film Festival [4] [5]
- May 2008 Telly award for directing and editing short film.' [3] [5]
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Aryana Farshad is a writer, director, and film producer born in Tehran, Iran. [1] [2]
Known for her documentary films on spirituality and mysticism, Farshad is an international film maker. She has been commissioned to make several films for different non-profit foundations in US, Iran, London, Turkey and India. Fluent in English, French & Persian, Farshad is the recipient of “Audience Favorite Award”, “Telly Award”, and “Davey Award”. In addition, she received the ABU Award for editing a documentary film entitled “Immigrant Birds.” Farshad is a still photographer and her work was exhibited at LACMA, and Einsen Gallery. Previously, Farshad worked at COLUMBIA and MGM.
Currently, Farshad lectures at major universities, museums, and various non-profit organizations. She has lectured at: The British Museum of Arts, LA County Museum of Arts, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Fes Sacred Music Festival in Morocco, Parliament of the World Religions in Barcelona, and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. For her latest project “Longing for the Soul; A Quest for Rumi”, she received a “Bijan & Soraya” Grant. Filmed entirely in US, Iran, Turkey & Afghanistan.
She moved to Paris and studied French language and literature at The Sorbonne, prior to receiving her degree from the Institut Des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in film production and editing. She returned to her native country of Iran for a few years where she worked with Iranian and western film makers. She moved to Los Angeles, attending USC film department and later joined the Editor's Guild and worked for Hollywood studios, including MGM Studios and Columbia Pictures in television post-production. [3] In 2000, she travelled back to her native country Iran and returned footage which was used in creating the documentary film Mystic Iran, the Unseen World. Her second documentary film on Iran, Age of Awakening, is narrated by Omid Djalili. Mystic Iran won the "Audience Favorite Award" at the 2008 Noor Film Festival. [3] [4] Her current project, Longing for the Soul is about Rumi and in production.
Cesar winning French actress Fanny Ardent.
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