Films
REZA HASSANI GOES TO THE MALL (2012)
Writer/Director/Editor
USA – Columbia University Film Festival (Focus Features Award for Best Film, Student Choice Award for Best Directing)
A recent immigrant journeys to the American cultural mecca that is the mall.
THE POOL PARTY (2009)
Writer/Director/Editor
Iran/USA – Tribeca Film Festival 2010 (Jury Award), Cinequest Film Festival (Best Student Short), Abu Dhabi Int’l Film Festival, Palm Springs Int’l Shortsfest
THE POOL PARTY combines social realism with political allegory in the story of an aged servant’s rebellion against his masters.
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DEADLINE (2010)
Writer/Director/Editor
France
Marie, a struggling writer, is approaching a crucial deadline for her editor. When an unexpected visit from her mother sets her off track, she must reexamine her priorities.
YABANCI (Foreigner) (2011)
Writer/Director
Turkey/USA
A bazaar portrait of a relationship on the rocks.
HANDSOME HARRY (2008)
Associate Producer
USA – Tribeca Film Festival 2009
An ex-navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.
RECESS (2009)
Co-Producer
USA – frameline film festival 2009
RECESS is a dark coming of age story about the power struggles of sexual identity and friendship.