Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Maryam Keshavarz

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Maryam Keshavarz


Role
  
Filmmaker

Maryam Keshavarz Marakesh Films

Born
  
1975
New York, United States

Alma mater
  
NYU- Tisch School of the Arts- MFA Film DirectionUniversity of Michigan, Masters of ArtsNorthwestern University, BA

Movies
  
Circumstance, The Color of Love, The Day I Died, Not for Sale, Sanctuary

Awards
  
Teddy Award for Best Short Film, Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

Nominations
  
Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award

Similar People
  
Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Nasrin Pakkho, Karin Chien

Cine outsider interviews writer director maryam keshavarz


Maryam Keshavarz (Persian: مریم کشاورز‎‎) is an Iranian-American filmmaker best known for her 2011 film Circumstance distributed by Participant Media and Roadside Attractions, which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.

Contents

Maryam Keshavarz 2011 Sundance Film Festival Presents Circumstance by

Circumstance film by maryam keshavarz sundance film festival 2011


Biography

Maryam Keshavarz iamediaimdbcomimagesMMV5BMTk5NTA3NDQ5M15BMl5

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.

Maryam Keshavarz Maryam Keshavarz le film En secret Femmes dans l

In 2001, with a band of all girl crew and cast, Maryam directed her first experimental 16mm film, entitled Sanctuary. This surreal fantasy film about an Iranian woman in post-9/11 America traveled to several international festivals and landed Maryam the Steve Tisch fellowship to attend NYU’s graduate film program.

Maryam Keshavarz Maryam Keshavarz Zimbio

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. An intimate portrait of the changing landscape of love and politics in Iran, the documentary showed at international festivals such as Montreal World Film Fest, Full Frame Doc Fest, MoMA New York, It’s All True (Brazil), among others; it garnered top prizes such as the International Documentary Association’s David L. Wolper Award, Jury Award at DocuDays, and the Full Frame’s Spectrum Award. The Color of Love has been broadcast internationally, was released on DVD by Parlour Pictures, and was featured on Danny DeVito’s Jersey Docs, a subsidiary of Morgan Freeman’s ClickStar.

Maryam Keshavarz Maryam Keshavarz YouTube

In 2005, Maryam returned to Argentina, where she had studied Latin American literature at the University of Buenos Aires. There, she wrote and directed the visual essay The Day I Died about an adolescent love triangle in a sleepy Argentine seaside town. The Day I Died has shown in Main Competition at Mar del Plata, Clermont-Ferrand, New York Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. The Day I Died was the only short film at Berlinale to win two awards: the Gold Teddy Best Short Film and the Jury Prize Special Mention. The film also won the Jury Prize at the Rio International Film Fest. The film is part of DVD compilation by Shooting People entitled BEST v BEST VOL. 2: AWARD WINNING SHORT FILMS 2006.

Maryam’s first narrative feature fiction film, CIRCUMSTANCE premiered to overwhelming critical acclaim at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, garnering the coveted Sundance Audience Award, leading to Maryam’s inclusion in Deadline.com’s 2011 Director’s to Watch. CIRCUMSTANCE has won over a dozen international awards including Best First Film at the Rome Film Festival and the Audience & Best Actress Awards at Outfest. The Independent Spirit Award nominated film was described by the New York Times as “Swirling and sensuous”, by the Wall Street Journal as “Supremely cinematic”, and by the Hollywood Reporter as “Amazingly accomplished.” The film released theatrically in over a dozen countries in 2012.

Most recently, Maryam’s newest film project THE LAST HAREM won the prestigious Hearst Screenwriters Grant and the San Francisco Film Society/ KRF Screenwriting Award, while her museum installation work entitled 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 is alumni of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab, Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access Program. She is the recipient of dozens of grants and fellowships including the French Government’s Fonds Sud, Rotterdam Film Festivals’ Hubert Bals Award, Women in Film’s Grant, Adrienne Shelley Award, numerous Sundance fellowships, and multiple San Francisco Film Society grants. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania and guest lecturer at dozens of prestigious international universities. She is an active member of Film Independent serving as a mentor for their Project Involve Initiative and speaking on numerous filmmaking panels.

Personal life

Keshavarz is bisexual.

References

Maryam Keshavarz Wikipedia


Similar Topics