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My Work

As I Am - Feature Film

Associate Producer/Directors Assistant

Feature Film | Hingham, MA, USA

Assisting the director in pre-production for the feature film As I Am, with filming scheduled to start in January 2025.

Prepared a bilingual script draft and supported script revisions as needed.

Coordinating with cast and crew to organize rehearsals, manage logistics, and ensure efficient communication across departments.

Developing and maintaining production schedules to align with creative and logistical goals.

Supporting the director's vision by overseeing key aspects of on-set operations and planning.

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Farsi and English with English subtitles.

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Sleeping Sky - Narrative Short Film

Writer, Director, and Editor

Narrative Short Film | Vernon, CT, USA

"Sleeping Sky" takes place during Iran's political unrest, with Sara fleeing to the house of Farah and her grandson Amir. The group weaves a story that combines hope, resiliency, and chasing goals as it moves through societal pressures, personal conflicts, and the unpredictability of fate.

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Farsi with English subtitles.

Woodpecker - Short Film

Second AD

Narrative Short Film, Directed by Tanju Özdemir | New Haven, CT; Montclair, NJ; Queens, NY.

Supported ARRI camera equipment management and assisted the cinematographer with technical adjustments

Managed the shot list and handled the slate effectively for smooth post-production editing

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Turkish with English subtitles.

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Film Festival Leadership 

May 2023

Served on the pre-screening selection committee, designed the official festival poster, and contributed to the creation of the festival's official teaser.

Acted as a speaker and translator for directors.

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Homeland , Short Documentary 

Director, and Editor | Storrs, CT, USA

​Four international graduate students from different cultures pick a color that best represents their homeland while they talk about their unique childhood experiences and recall some forgotten memories.

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Contrition was a joy without you - Short Film

Writer and Director                                       

Experimental Short Film |Tehran, Iran
Theme: Loneliness, desperation, madness

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Farsi with English subtitles.

Morning is Close - Feature Film​

Actor

Original title: Dare Sobh Misheh

  • 2015

  • 1h 27m

  • Director: Yalda Jebeli

  • Writers :Yalda Jebeli , Somayeh Tajik

An episodic film made of 4 separate stories which are happening in night till morning and shows the problems of the characters of these stories.

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The Blue Feeling of Death, Stage Theater

Actor

  • 2013​

  • Director : Amin Miri

  • Writer: Sajjad Afsharian

The play tells the true stories of seven juvenile death row inmates and the families on all sides of their crimes. It showcase of activist art against Iran's legal codes that allow death sentences for juvenile offenders - who then wait until their 18th birthday for execution.

ZibaFeature Film 

Actor

  • 2012

  • 1h 22m

  • Written and directed by Bani Khoshnoodi

Ziba is an upper-class housewife in today's modern Tehran. Unable to relate to her environment or to her alienating life, she lives within her repetition unable to express to those around her what is wrong. But one long summer day, Ziba finds herself in an unexpected situaiton in the company of people unknown to her, confronted with her own choices and indecisions. Not a character portrait per se, this film works as a visceral metaphor of the general state of oppression and silence in Iran today.

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Secrets of a House​ - TV Series

Acting in 2 episodes

  • 2010

  • Director: Hamid Labkhandeh

The Secrets of a House is a 17-episode drama series set in an old mansion, where each 55-minute episode reveals new stories about its residents’ intertwined lives. Created by notable writers like Nader Borhani Marand and adapted by the late Asghar Abdollahi, the show merges contemporary narratives with themes inspired by literary greats like Anton Chekhov. 

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