Maryam Keshavarz is an Iranian-American filmmaker and is known for her 2011 film Circumstance, which won the Audience Award at Sundance. Maryam received her BA in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University, an MA in Near Eastern studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MFA in Film Direction from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Shiraz, Department of Language and Literature. In 2001,Maryam directed her f
...irst experimental 16mm film Sanctuary. In 2003, Maryam drew on her experience growing up between Iran and the United States to direct her first feature documentary, "The Color of Love". In 2005, Maryam returned to Argentina where she wrote and directed the visual essay "The Day I Died". More recently, Maryam's "THE LAST HAREM" won the prestigious Hearst Screenwriters Grant and the San Francisco Film Society/ KRF Screenwriting Award, while her museum installation work "BETWEEN SIGHT AND DESIRE: IMAGINING THE MUSLIM WOMAN" won a multi-year grant from the Creative Capital Fund. Maryam has also been tapped to co-write and direct the narrative adaptation of the award winning HBO documentary "Hot Coffee".Maryam Keshavarz has been a Director in some movies:
Circumstances is about that Directed by Maryam Keshavarz and featuring Nikohl Boosheri and Sarah Kazemy, this Iranian film won the audience award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a young woman's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession. The heads of the family reminisce on their youth and what has become and what will become of their family. Between morality police and illicit parties, this movie invites us into the world of Iranian youth culture In this film Maryam Keshavarz collaborates with Reza Sixo Safai, Maryam Ataei, Karin Chien, Antonin Dedet, Nathan Dee, Derek Fears, Hossein Keshavarz, Melissa Lee, Cara Roley, Pierre Sarraf, Audrey Saunders, Christina Won, Andrea Chignoli, Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Soheil Parsa, Amir Barghashi, Fariborz Daftari, Keon Alexander, Sina Amedson, Amir Soleimani, Siro Fazlian, Elle Njeim, Brian Rigney Hubbard, Paul Andre Fonarev, Michael Gassert, Glenn Morgan, Herman Thumann, Stephanie Aznarez, Kasia Bohos, Joanna Kamar, Therese Moukarzel, Micheal Peter, Anna Piskoulian, Lamia Choucair, Natacha Kalfayan, Gingger Shankar, Nasrin Pak Khoo.
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