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Maryam Keshavarz (Persian: مریم کشاورز), is an American filmmaker, of Iranian descent. She is best known for her 2011 film Circumstance [2] distributed by Participant Media and Roadside Attractions , which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival .
Winning both the Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director-producer Maryam Keshavarz delivers a universal and timely story of the Iranian and the Iranian-American experience.
MARYAM KESHAVARZ received her MFA from NYU/ Tisch in film direction and has been making award-winning films for 19 years. Maryam’s first feature documentary, THE COLOR OF LOVE, an intimate portrait of the changing landscape of love and politics in Iran, won numerous awards at top-tier festivals and was broadcast internationally.
Oct 20, 2023 · In her new film, Maryam Keshavarz finds both gravity and levity in the struggle to reconcile her Iranian heritage and her life in the United States.
- Maya Salam
Oct 9, 2023 · Loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz's own life, The Persian Version centers on an Iranian American woman who identifies as bisexual and whose mother entered into an...
- Terry Gross
Jan 20, 2023 · The director of "The Persian Version" talks about her personal and cultural influences, her family secrets, and her LGBTQIA+ character in her Sundance premiere. She also discusses the challenges and joys of being an Iranian-American filmmaker and a mother.
Oct 26, 2023 · In Maryam Keshavarz’s Sundance Audience Award winner The Persian Version, the choices, traumas and joys of multiple Iranian and Iranian American women are traced through a single bloodline.
