Name Fereshta Kazemi Role Film actress | Movies Targeting, Heal | |
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Fereshta Kazemi (born in 1979 ) is an Afghan–American film actress.
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- Fereshta kazemi new film reel new film work w old favorites
- Afnistn The Icy Sun
- Early life
- Career
- References
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Afġānistān: The Icy Sun
Early life
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Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979, Kazemi moved to the U.S. with her family in 1981. She was raised in New York and the California Bay Area. After high school, Kazemi won an acting and academic scholarship to Marymount Manhattan College in NYC, where she studied acting and writing. Kazemi also earned a degree in Philosophy & Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Davis. She continued graduate acting and screenwriting studies at Academy of Art University and earned an MBA from Chapman University, emphasizing in Film Production.
Career
![Fereshta Kazemi Afghanistan actress tries to change the industry LA Times](https://alchetron.com/cdn/fereshta-kazemi-7328c1f5-4200-496d-837f-87af7d53b33-resize-750.jpeg)
In 2009, Kazemi held a lead role in Heal, a film about conflict in Afghanistan which has won twenty international and domestic film festival awards, including winner of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Category at Comic Con International Film Festival (2011), winner of the Frank D. Capra award (2011), and the Humanitarian Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival (2011).
![Fereshta Kazemi Afghan actress Fereshta Kazemi takes a stand to change how women are](https://alchetron.com/cdn/fereshta-kazemi-b59cdbbc-e6e7-4ae6-b682-ef913c35f85-resize-750.jpg)
In 2014, Kazemi was the main character in Targeting, a U.S. psychological thriller feature film playing a young Afghan immigrant wife in the U.S. Kazemi. In this film she performed the first on screen kiss for an Afghan actress and was called a "trailblazer" by NBC.
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Kazemi's work was photographed in a series by Pulitzer prize winning photographer Carolyn Cole while in Afghanistan.
![Fereshta Kazemi Afghan film aims to break rape taboo Al Jazeera English](https://alchetron.com/cdn/fereshta-kazemi-2b9f08d9-33e3-4307-b1f1-42f3da59dc3-resize-750.jpeg)
In 2013, Fereshta played the leading role in The Icy Sun, a film about rape in Afghanistan. NBC News said her film "breaks new ground for Afghanistan, where victims of rape can be forced to marry their attackers to preserve their families' honor".
Kazemi is working on a documentary about Acting in Afghanistan.
In 2013, she was awarded a Best Actress Award for her role in "The Icy Sun" at the "2nd Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival".