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An Evening with Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Thursday, February 27, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St
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Iranian filmmaker Anahita Ghazvinizadeh is celebrated for her finely crafted character studies, which often feature non-professional actors in stories of young people facing uncertainty and change. In her latest work, My Life is Wind (A Letter), Ghazvinizadeh follows Myriam, a war refugee newly resettled in Iowa. As Myriam navigates her unfamiliar surroundings, she channels her grief into a letter to the grandmother she had to leave behind. Ghazvinizadeh presents her short film alongside a selection of works by artists whose approach resonates with her own and discusses her distinctive approach to cinema.
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh is a director, screenwriter, editor, and educator. Her short film Needle won the Cinéfondation Premier Prix in Cannes Film Festival in 2013, and her feature directorial debut They premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Ghazvinizadeh was named as one of the 25 new faces of independent cinema by Filmmaker Magazine in 2013, and is an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She is currently assistant professor in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department at SAIC.
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2013: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh [Article]
Scott Macaulay | Filmmaker Magazine | 2013
Needle wins Cannes short film prize [Article]
Wendy Mitchell | Screen Daily | May 24, 2013
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s Needle [Interview]
Zing Tsjeng | Dazed Digital | April 11, 2014
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Pays Homage to Bresson [Article]
Penelope Bartlett | Current | November 29, 2016
Interview with Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, director of They [Interview]
Tarik Khaldi | Cannes Film Festival | May 19, 2017
Filmmaker Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Shares Her Wealth of Knowledge [Article]
Michael McCurdy | The Daily Iowan | Auguest 22, 2018
Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
