#2019 tehran musical production

[hadleysmis]

As of 2019, when government-approved performance of Les Misérables was put to stage in Tehran (Iran), there had to be serious changes regarding the costumes, choreography, and vocal departments.

Considering the restrictions such as:

- Female actors are not allowed to show their natural hair

- Women and men cannot touch

- Women cannot sing solo

I have captured some clips in which we can look through to see how they have implemented these restrictions to the musical.

(There are other major changes made outside of the restriction to women actors' performances, but this 'thread' will focus on the changes being due to the restrictions stated above.)

[newstfionline]

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Trudeau: US fighter shot down object over northern Canada (AP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska. North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, detected the object flying at a high altitude Friday evening over Alaska, U.S. officials said. It crossed into Canadian airspace on Saturday. Trudeau spoke with President Joe Biden, who also ordered the object to be shot down. Canadian and U.S. jets operating as part of NORAD were scrambled and it was a U.S. jet that shot down the object. F-22 fighter jets have now taken out three objects in the airspace above the U.S. and Canada over seven days, a stunning development that is raising questions on just what, exactly, is hovering overhead and who has sent them. At least one of the objects downed was believed to be a spy balloon from China, but the other two had not yet been publicly identified.

Joyous parades and parties kick off New Orleans’ Mardi Gras (AP) A venerable fine-dining fixture on Bourbon Street helped kick off the final frantic days of New Orleans Mardi Gras season Friday—relaxing its jackets-required dress code and briefly ditching its no-pets policy for a pair of crown- and cape-wearing rescue dogs. Outside, music was already blaring from some Bourbon Street bars as the city prepared for three major parades Friday evening on historic St. Charles Avenue. Other Friday night parades were scheduled in neighboring Metairie, and there will be more than two dozen other such processions almost nightly until Mardi Gras, which this year falls on Feb. 21. Mardi Gras is the culmination of Carnival season—which officially begins each year on Jan. 6, the 12th day after Christmas, known as King’s Day, in New Orleans and closes with the arrival of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

How Lethal Is “Less Lethal”? (Wired) The U.S. is often called the “world’s policeman” due to its history of intervening in the affairs of other states, supposedly for the greater good. Now, the world’s policeman is also becoming the world’s arms dealer to police departments across the globe, as the leader of the multi-billion-dollar, global, unregulated “less lethal” weapon industry. As protests spring up across the world—Hong Kong in 2019, Minneapolis in 2020, Tehran in 2022, and Peru this year—law enforcement agencies have deployed riot police armed with rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, Tasers, and flashbang grenades. Those weapons all sound relatively harmless compared to a bullet—until you get hit with one of them. Tasers can cause cardiac arrest, and everything else on the list can break skulls, permanently affect sight and hearing, and cause concussions. Besides the actual lethality of “less-lethal” weapons, another issue is the industry’s loose regulation. The U.S. has no federal legislation regulating the production of less-lethals, and while the Geneva Protocol bans the use of tear gas in war, governments are perfectly welcome to gas their own populations. The industry is expected to grow by $3 billion over the 10 years, allowing governments to employ brutal technologies against protestors without the most basic forms of oversight.

UK economy avoids decline but cost of living pains many (AP) The small notice pinned to a wall at Union Chapel in north London is a sign of despair for charity workers dealing with the fallout from Britain’s cost-of-living crisis. The showers, it says, are reserved for the homeless. In other words, those who still have a roof over their heads but can’t afford to heat water for bathing are in essence asked to refrain. Amanuel Woldesus, who runs the Margins Project charity based at the church for people in crisis, is frustrated that he’s being forced to ration a service this way. The pressures are likely to get worse as Britain faces a prolonged economic slowdown triggered by soaring food and energy prices and compounded by tax increases and higher interest rates that authorities have unleashed as they battle the crisis. Middle-class families will see their disposable incomes fall by as much as 13%, or 4,000 pounds ($4,840), over the next financial year, according to analysis by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. About 25% of households won’t be able to pay their food and energy bills out of their take-home income, up from 20% last year, the independent think tank estimates.

Russia Fires Major Missile Barrage at Ukraine as Combat Intensifies (NYT) Russia targeted Ukraine’s already battered infrastructure with more than 100 drones, rockets and missiles on Friday, raining explosives on cities around the country as President Volodymyr Zelensky returned from a three-day trip across Europe to ask Ukraine’s allies to send more weapons, and faster. The strikes, the first heavy aerial barrage in weeks, came as fighting on the ground intensified, in what Ukrainian officials were calling a new winter offensive. The Ukrainian air force described Friday’s aerial assault as a “massive attack” and said that it had involved 71 cruise missiles, seven Iranian-made drones and about 35 S-300 missiles, antiaircraft missiles that Russia has taken to using against targets on the ground. Ukraine said in a statement that it had shot down 61 of the cruise missiles and five of the drones.

‘They’re Hunting Me.’ Life as a Ukrainian Mayor on the Front Line (NYT) The little green van sped down the road, the Russian forces just across the river. Inside, Halyna Luhova, the mayor of Kherson, cradled a helmet in her lap and gazed out the bulletproof window. When the first shell ripped open, directly in the path of the van, maybe 200 yards ahead, her driver locked his elbows and tightened his grip on the wheel and drove straight through the cloud of fresh black smoke. “Oh my god,” Ms. Luhova said, as we raced with her through the city. “They’re hunting me.” The second shell landed even closer. She’s been almost killed six times. She sleeps on a cot in a hallway. She makes $375 a month, and her city in southern Ukraine has become one of the war’s most pummeled places, fired on by Russian artillery nearly every hour. But Ms. Luhova, the only female mayor of a major city in Ukraine, remains determined to project a sense of normality even though Kherson is anything but normal. Kherson, a port city on the Dnipro River, was captured by Russian forces in March; liberated by Ukrainian forces in November; and now, three months later, lies nearly deserted. Packs of out-of-school children roam the empty boulevards lined with leafless trees and centuries-old buildings cracked in half.

Volunteers Piece Together a Makeshift Medical System in Earthquake Zone (NYT) An ambulance pulled up to the cluster of red tents that now serves as the main hospital in the ruined city of Antakya, on Friday morning. It was bringing in a woman pulled from the wreck of her home after nearly 100 hours under the rubble. For the doctors in the field hospital, hastily constructed in a parking lot, miracles had grown nearly routine, but there were never enough of them. Given the extent of the destruction, the fact that Antakya has established a semi-functioning medical system is remarkable. Monday’s earthquake took out hospitals as well as homes, leaving emergency responders across 10 provinces unable to care properly at first for people crushed by collapsing buildings. Since then, however, a new, makeshift health care system has been constructed amid the devastation by volunteers from around Turkey and the world. While the most severely wounded were sent to undamaged hospitals in other provinces for treatment, field hospitals in the heart of the earthquake zone sprung up to stabilize the newly rescued, treat more minor injuries and manage the diseases that are flaring in the disaster’s wake. Even pets rescued from the rubble were receiving volunteer medical care at a pop-up animal hospital in Antakya.

Quake Death Toll Surpasses 23,000 Amid Struggle to Get Aid to Quake’s Victims (NYT) The death toll in Turkey and Syria from this week’s catastrophic earthquake surpassed 23,600 on Friday as relief organizations struggled to overcome an array of obstacles to deliver aid to survivors in both countries. The second aid convoy in two days, loaded with medicine, food and clothes, reached an opposition enclave in northwestern in Syria. The earthquake zone in Syria includes areas controlled by the Syrian government and others held by opposition forces backed by Turkey. Those territorial divisions, and an array of political obstacles stemming from the ongoing civil war, have created fatal delays in delivering help to Syrians. The flow of aid has also been hampered because the border crossing used by humanitarian convoys, known as Bab al-Hawa, is the only route approved by the United Nations to reach the opposition-held region in northwestern Syria. As many as 5.3 million people in Syria may have lost their homes because of the earthquake, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency. “For Syria, this is a crisis within a crisis,” said Sivanka Dhanapala, the agency’s representative in Syria, citing economic turmoil, the pandemic and now the earthquake and blizzards.

Japan’s earthquake recovery offers hard lessons for Turkey (AP) Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world moves on? Similarities between the calamity unfolding this week in Turkey and Syria and the triple disaster that hit northern Japan in 2011 may offer a glimpse of what the region could face in the years ahead. A big lesson from Japan is that a disaster of this size doesn’t ever really have a conclusion. Despite speeches about rebuilding, the Tohoku quake has left a deep gash in the national consciousness and the landscapes of people’s lives. Take the death toll. Deaths directly attributable to the quake in Turkey will level off in coming weeks, but it’s unlikely to be the end. And despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Japan on reconstruction, some things won’t ever come back. Today, while the wreckage of the quake and tsunami has largely been removed and many roads and buildings rebuilt, there are still large areas of empty space, places where buildings haven’t been erected, farms haven’t been replanted. The long haul of rebuilding has been uneven and, at times, painfully slow, hampered by government incompetence, petty squabbling and bureaucratic wrangling. Nearly half a million people were displaced in Japan. Tens of thousands still haven’t returned home.

[artwalktv]

Majid a young financially struggling Iranian man who is trying to push his wife in front of a car in the busy streets of Tehran in order to gain insurance money. Director: Kaveh Mazaheri Cast: Sonia Sanjari, Soroush Saeidi, Artin Rabiei Screenplay: Kaveh Mazaheri, Sepinood Najian DOP: Behrouz Badrouj Costume Designer: Raha Dadkhah Editor: Pooyan Sholevar Make-up Artist: Hosna Khanmohammadi Music: Kito Siqueira , Roberto Coelho Sound: Hossein Ghourchian, Hadi Manavipour Production Manager: Mahdi Borjian Assistant Directors: Behnam Rahnamaei, Mina Hamedani, Navid Karimpour, Hamed Nejabat Colorist and VFX: Mohsen Kheirabadi Producers: Kaveh Mazaheri, Soroush Saeidi, Pooyan Sedghi Iran & Canada / 2019 / Darvash Film, 3bros Film 2020 Palm Springs International Shortfest (USA) - Winner Special Mention for Best International Short 2020 ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival (France) – Winner Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Short 2019 Foyle Film Festival (UK, Northern Ireland) – Winner Best International Film (Academy Awards Qualified) 2019 BFI London Film Festival (UK) - Official Selection 2019 Cork Film Festival (Ireland) - Official Selection 2019 PÖFF Shorts (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival) (Estonia) - Official Selection 2019 The Discover Film Awards (UK) – Winner Director without Borders Award 2019 Cornwall Film Festival (UK) – Winner Best Short 2019 Court en Scène (France) – Winner Special Mention for Best Screenplay 2019 Winchester Film Festival (UK) – Winner Special Mention for Best Foreign Film

[kamibekami]

Kamibekami Biography

Kambiz Noorollahi (born September 7, 1988, Tehran, Iran)better known by his stage name Kamibekami, is a singer, song writer, musician, composer, Music Producer.

He started his career at a young age and with the establishment of Kamibekami Productions in 2018, he officially entered the field of music and production.

His nickname in cyberspace is "Kamibekami" and he is known as the creator of visual music.  Music that plays with the human mind and has hidden messages.

His best album according to his fans, is called “Masters of the Universe” and this album has 6 tracks with a special arrangement that are, Masters of the Universe, Hybrid, White Dream, THIS IS ENERGY, Free Zone , If all the above, and Celentic Age

Kambiz Noorollahi mostly produces music in the field of instrumental with House and Trance genres and has several examples of singing in his multi-year resume.

If we want to name some of his most seen tracks, we can refer to singles such as: Hybrid (2020), Rain Drops (2020), White Dream(2020), Masters of the Universe(2019).

Education

He studied computer engineering.

IT and network specialist

Passing acting courses

Activities

Social media marketing expert

Movie and TV actor

Singer and author of poetry

bussines managmant

Work offices

He also owns his business offices in Turkey , India and Pakistan

Activity Summary

In general, he is famous and successful businessperson.

Career

Kamibekami is active in various fields

Among his recent activities:

Social media marketing expert: Working in this field is one of his main interests, with extensive marketing and the power to make plans for his own business or that of others, he creates the best opportunities.  Kamibekami is a bit powerful in this matter as if he was created for this job!

Acting : Kamibekami is also active in the field of acting.  Some of his new works in Iranian cinema: Rahman 1400, Texas 2, Khoob bad jelf 2, darbareye eli

Singing: Kamibekami is active in singing in the Dance / Electronic genre and his latest song is called Tak Tak.  This music has been published and approved in more than one hundred world music media

business management : Business activity is the main work of Kamibekami.  In 2020, he was selected as the youngest and best business man in Iran and received a plaque of appreciation.

Food trade: It has recently entered the food trade business in Central Asia and the Middle East a

The only social accounts of Kamibekami ( Kamibekami ) :

Official Websites :

1- Website ( Iran )

2- Kamibekami.com ( Global )

Facebook :

facebook.com/kamibekami.music

Instagram :

instagram.com/Kamibekami

Twitter :

twitter.com/Kamibekami

VK :

vk.com/kamibekami

IMDb :

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10994734/

Youtube :

www.youtube.com/Kamibekami

Spotify :

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2XOelKWNhlDEgNPSCUQf8u

Deezer :

https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/71145162

Apple music :

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kamibekami/1476593317

[auutintiug]

“In her own words, Hoda Katebi is “a Chicago-based angry daughter of Muslim-Iranian immigrants,” author of the book Tehran Streetstyle, community organizer, and the voice behind the radical, political online fashion publication JooJoo Azad. Here, she speaks with Palestinian-American human rights attorney, artist, educator, and writer Noura Erakat, who has time and again stunned and stupefied the media in bold, brazen, sensibly unapologetic interviews. Katebi and Erakat’s conversation is akin to two streams flowing parallel to one another, embarking upon the surfaces and diving into the depths of politics, art, activism, identity, and gender norms, ultimately joining forces in the same body of water, not in competition but in support of one another—level and determined, headstrong, open to the elements.

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Hoda Katebi: Do you think that all art is political?

Noura Erakat: I mean, I’m trained as an attorney. I’m hesitant to make such an absolute statement. Politics is basically the negotiation over scarce resources, and it’s the work that’s being done to actually negotiate that distribution. Art is expression, some sort of expression, any kind of expression, right? It’s a visionary aide. It’s a manifestation. That could be political in two ways: What is it that the artist chose to represent as opposed to anything else, and then how does creation implicate a discussion around the distribution of scarce resources?

I don’t identify as an artist because it’s political. I identify as an artist because I think that it’s a way of being. An artist is someone who can transcend an immediate material reality to be able to define yourself on your own terms, and to want to see the world on terms that may not yet exist. So those are the things that I think define an artist, which is not being bound by what is, but instead being in the constant act of creating what could be. A lot of the time it does come from people who hold privilege who say that they don’t want their art to be political or simultaneously call out Palestinians or black folks and say, “Oh, why do you always create political art?” It’s almost like my entire life. It’s triggering to you.

HK: What role does art play for you, and especially as a Palestinian, why is it important?

NE: So, I just want to be clear: I identify as an artist because I think that that’s the best way, because a lot of people see me, and they’re, “Oh, Noura’s a lawyer. Oh, Noura’s a teacher. Oh, Noura …” You know what I mean?

HK: Yeah.

NE: And I feel like rather than be defined by the actual profession, I want to be defined by the way I relate to the world in it. Me being an artist is not me defining my career or my productivity. It’s my relationship to time. I’m also identifying as queer, right? it’s not who you’re attracted to; it’s how you’re manifesting yourself in the world outside of binaries. I want to live.

I’ve written two plays, and I’ve fallen out of that—it’s a practice, like anything, and I haven’t been keeping it up. But last fall, the Kennedy Center invited the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, which I am a co-founder of, to curate a program for the Millennium Stage. I got to direct the program, which meant musical direction, light direction, you know, all the stage work, plus it’s a play that I wrote, and I directed the professional actress who performed it. It was actually such a miracle, because we only got to do one stage rehearsal an hour before the program started.

The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival began because in 2011, I had been co-leading something called the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, and we had created a local chapter in D.C., and all of the work that we were doing as part of that network was, I thought, very reactionary. No to negotiations. No to these terms of the peace process. No to the split. I knew, I knew that that was not going to last because that’s not something that sustains. It creates a lot of toxicity.

On a trip to Toronto, I was speaking in Toronto and my good friend introduced me to her project, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival, and I thought to myself, oh my God. That’s it. We have to create something that will outlast the politics of rejection. We have to create something that lives on its own terms. So when I got back, I and two other women co-founded this project, and now we’re in our eighth year. It is not a Palestine film festival; it is a showman arts festival. Our whole purpose is to showcase the artists, whoever they are. You could be talking about your favorite color or your favorite candy or the way your mom screwed you over and still left it in your head. The whole point is to showcase the artist and all of the different media that they use, visual, performing, cross stitching, cooking, music, dance, the whole thing.

This is where we’re dreaming of the future. This is where we’re creating. Who are Palestinians? Who are young Palestinians don’t know anything about it? From what they feel, from what their family passed onto them—how are they expressing that? And that is the future of Palestine. We’re trying to cultivate the space where they can dream. What the diaspora looks like and what the community looks like beyond just, what are the political terms upon which this will be resolved? Instead it becomes a social question, more like, what do people look like? What does trauma feel like? What is joy? What is internal conflict? What languages do we speak in this space? It also becomes one of the best tools for mainstreaming the question of Palestine. We’re bringing out audiences that probably feel like the whole thing is toxic.

HK: Yeah, it’s like a language that transcends border and culture. You create really accessible work. So, how are you able to transcend that really difficult box that lawyers are taught to be sitting in?

NE: I went into law school because I wanted to fight, and I thought, if only we had these tools we could just reason through this, then we can get out of the binds that politics had created for us, and we’ll just reason through it through some arbiter. We just listen to each side, and we can figure it out, and in fact, that was a really jarring lesson, and one of naivety, and it’s become the source of inspiration for my forthcoming book, Justice for Some: Law in the Question of Palestine, which will be out in March 2019. First of all, I barely survived the damned thing, because it is the single most white, heteronormative, classist, stifling space—

HK: Say it.

NE: —you can ever imagine. It is basically where you go to protect and revere the status quo. My issue with law school is that you take that for granted. Nobody admits that that’s what it is, and you start to act like everything that you’re studying is objective when everything is so not objective.

HK: Everything that you produce, whether it’s academic in the legal industry, you’re coming from your particular perspective of the world. Oppressed or oppressor.

NE: True, but there’s a different kind. Let me give you an example. When you’re studying property law in the United States, all property law is built upon a logic of dispossessing native nations, indigenous nations in the United States. And here you are studying concepts like liens, trusts or estates, possession, but you never ever talk about, well, what is the root of this whole model? The root of it is the dispossession of indigenous nations. Or when we talk about criminal law: We want to talk about the death penalty as a jurisprudential matter, which means we’re just going to look at the case law, but we’re not going to talk about, how is it that the law itself and the way that the death penalty becomes instrumentalized is specifically to punish black people?

I had a really hard time in law school. I ended up getting a big award at the end, which was like a vindication, but I almost didn’t even go to my graduation because I was just like, this was miserable. Afterwards, I didn’t even take a traditional law job. I went to Berkeley Law, and after law school, I got a fellowship for something like 30, 35k. That’s insane for a recent law graduate, and then there was no such thing as working as a Palestinian-rights lawyer, so I had to create my own job. It was a coup to even get the fellowship.

I’m now in a place where I have some stability, but from the time I graduated until now, I came onto the tenure track in the academy basically hustling. Nobody wants to … It’s just a difficult story. I mean, you have to be crazy to be doing this work. If I wasn’t crazy, I wouldn’t have lasted this long.

HK: What has got you through?

NE: I kept pushing. I kept being a lawyer. I went back to school, and I kept writing like a lawyer. I kept appearing on television like a lawyer until more recently. I think until last December, when I started to appear on TV and in public spaces, a little less as an attorney and more like as a human being and a Palestinian, that, I think, was a major turning point for me and for people receiving me, because when I’m talking as a lawyer, you know, I’m basically trying to be removed from it, just making the argument and letting it stand, but when I step into my skin as a Palestinian, as a human being, it’s me.

I’m still going to use logic as my primary communication tool, and everybody has a different way they like to communicate in public. Some people like to tell stories. Some people like to move you, just really deeply move you and rally you to fight and believe. I think logic is really compelling. I do it in the same way when I’m in my classroom. I don’t ever tell you what exactly to believe. I want to give you enough facts and information for you to make your own decision. That’s so much more powerful when you have to engage with me and do the work with me. You have to think about it.

For me, legal practice basically means that I’m an advocate. Because what is human rights advocacy? There’s no courtroom. What does it mean, then, to be a human rights attorney? It means that I am making a case in the world of public opinion. That’s my courtroom.

HK: What got you out of bed every day during this period? Were you also doing art at the same time, or did art come later?

NE: I was producing art while I was in law school as a writer. I dabbled in poetry, but I did the theater work. My first play is based on oral histories that I collected.

I’m in the West Bank in 2000, when the second intifada begins. I’m a student at Hebrew University [of Jerusalem], which was a whole story unto itself, but I’m the only student at Hebrew U that is a Palestinian and living in what’s known as the West Bank. And so basically, school gets shut down, because the intifada has started, and I had come eager to do an oral history project. I thought it was going to be about young girls and women. I started traveling to interview families of the slain, of the killed, and to get the stories of those killed, and so I collect all of these stories and come back. I transcribe them, and then I turn that oral history project into a revolving monologue, which is like a one-act play for about an hour where you get to hear almost all of the stories being told by the characters themselves as they’re describing their loved one who’d been killed.

So, I write that while I’m in law school. I produce that. I direct that. It takes its own life, and it’s performed in different places. I then come to do another monologue, but this time it’s a one-woman show, and I perform that one everywhere. And that was it. That space just killed my creative spirit.

HK: Do you see yourself within the legacy of any artist that you look up to? Whose tradition do you feel that you belong to, if any?

NE: The first person that comes to mind is Arundhati Roy.

HK: Bae!

NE: Right? Here is this woman completely committed to revolutionary justice and transformation but who is expressing herself also as a dreamer, as a novelist, and as an essayist, and so I really like that. It’s these visionary women who are immersed and accountable to a base and to a movement. They don’t see themselves as above or as being revered. They see themselves as being a part of something bigger than them. What you’re seeing in their work is homage to it, paying respect to it, and creating space for it.

HK: Situating yourself in the West as a site of knowledge production in academia, which is heavy orientalist, perpetuates a lot of racism, the same ways that you mention about the law. What are your experiences there, and what made you become an educator?

NE: I think in everything that I’ve done, I’ve always been an educator. Even as an activist or when I’m leading workshops at different universities from before I got into law school. The difference about entering the academy is now you’re producing knowledge in a way that’s refereed and becomes subject to academic and scholarly scrutiny. A lot of circumstances pushed me into that field, and also because I’m increasingly unfulfilled by the legal practice, which I find is so hampered by the question of politics and by political issues. I’m increasingly frustrated with the limitation of the law, but also more curious about it. Why is it working in this way? What is it about the law, what is it about politics? And so these became scholarly inquiries that push me out, like make me more disenchanted with being a lawyer.

Once I’m in the academy, now it’s like a whole different set of challenges. It becomes the most stark when people of color talk about justice issues that are difficult conversations. So, if I was talking about FGM and the Muslim community, I don’t think people would receive me harshly. It might even be kind of okay, because I’m not challenging the establishment. But being of color, producing knowledge that is counter-hegemonic is when you raise a lot of flags, and immediately people begin to question whether you’re an academic or an activist. It’s one thing if somebody was studying these things. It’s another if you’re invested in them and studying them. That’s been a really difficult challenge, how to toe that line.

It’s a lot of unknowns, like you’re saying. For me, I’m leaving the choice to myself. I write about what I find the most interesting, intriguing, because that’s what’s the most authentic, and that’s the work that I do best, when I enjoy what I’m doing. But there is great risk in doing the work in that way. I feel like that’s the risk that’s worth taking. I want to know that I spent all the time I had breathing, able-bodied and able-minded, to produce the work that I thought was critical and necessary, rather than produce the work that I thought was going to help me climb some sort of career ladder.

HK: Because at the end, you always get exposed anyway.

NE: Maybe it’s about getting exposed, but I feel like it’s between you and yourself. What is it that you want at the end of the day? What is going to make you happy? So, yeah, I’m taking a risk, but everything else that I’ve done has been a risk. Right?

HK: Yeah. And with all of these risks, what are the joys of being an educator?

NE: Oh my God, the students. There’s so much tremendous joy. There’s so much tremendous joy in their capacity and their imagination and their passion, and the community that they create with one another. In finding folks who want to create an alternative world based on a place of love and a place of vision and a place of hope and a place of faith. All of that is joyful. I believe that the revolution will be full of joy. I know the revolution to be full of joy. It’s also full of tremendous heartache, but we already know that, right? But when we fight, we don’t just fight because we’re sad and because we’re angry. We fight because we believe we can. We believe we can. We believe we should.

HK: And we have no choice.

NE: We believe we are better. And that’s so joyful.

HK: And that also takes me to the very last question that I’ll ask: What is the world that you’d like to see?

NE: Well, there’s the really nerdy answer, which is to see a world where if we are to have governments, the governments are to be run by people for the sake of people, where profit is not a determinative logic, where the distribution of wealth is not concomitant with some neo-liberal equation of productivity and earnings and market formulations, but rather based on need. That’s a world that I would love to live in.

I would like to live in a world where we’re actually honoring the earth. We are depleting this earth at such a fast rate, at such a disrespectful rate, that we’re not going to have an earth to even divide by the time we figure out how to get along with one another and get over our human conflict. That’s why billionaires are trying to figure out their exit route to Mars and life elsewhere. Environmentalism isn’t this side thing. It’s central to everything that we do, and it’s entwined with indigenous justice as well, people who have already told us how to treat this earth and how to make it sustainable.

HK: That’s beautiful. Well, thank you so much. Is there anything that you wanted to say that we didn’t get to touch on?

NE: One of the things that made me most excited about the invitation by Suited, the first thing I thought of, was that I wanted Rami Kashou to dress me, because I saw him on Project Runway and he didn’t identify as a Palestinian. I knew he was Palestinian, but he was just out there being a designer, and in watching him, I found freedom. I thought, that is what freedom will mean for Palestinians, when they can just be in the world and not have to be defined by our fight. We can just be defined by whoever we want to be. “I’ve been fangirling you for 12 years. You want to dress me?” So we meet, and he dresses me, and if you notice … I don’t know if you’ve seen the photos.

HK: I haven’t.

NE: It’s like artwork. Literally the only other person who’d worn what I wore for this photo shoot was a mannequin at a museum. It is exactly what I envision the future of Palestine to be, which is taking our tradition and our history and our past, but not going back to it or being stuck in it. It’s taking it and creating something absolutely new and visionary. It’s Palestinian futurism, and it was … that is such a central piece of the photo shoot, of this story, of what art is doing, of my own vision of: What does it take for us to create these new futures? And at the heart of it, it means not being afraid to dream.

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A clumsy accident leads a young girl onto the streets of Mumbai in the hope of making things right. A gentle and touching father/daughter story depicted in exquisite stop-motion from Indian animation mainstay, Studio Eeksaurus. Miscellaneous Video Links : - 1. Music Session -https://vimeo.com/392429595 2. Animating Tokri - https://vimeo.com/392426186 3. Pre-Production - https://vimeo.com/377728814 4. Sound Design - https://vimeo.com/392432285 5. Faces of Tokri - https://vimeo.com/290417516 6. Production Design - https://vimeo.com/330708363 7. Tokri Photoshoot - https://vimeo.com/360727855 Awards & Wins : - Luchezarny Angel Film Festival - The 11th Xiamen International Animation Festival - Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival (FYFF) - Crossroads Film Festival - Brroego Springs Film Festival - 65th National Film Award - 19th Crossroads Film Festival - Moscow Shorts April 2018 - Myrtle Beach International Film Festival - Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) - 4th Thessaloniki Animation Film Festival - 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival ( SICFF ) - International Short Film Festival Kolkata - Animation Studio Festival - Palm Springs International Animation Festival, 2018 (PSIAF ) - Short to The Point - Accolade Global Film Festival - 19th Digicon 6 Asia Awards - New Delhi Short Film Festival - The Smalls Film Festival - Great Lakes International Film Festival - Moondance International Film Festival - Long Island International Film Expo(LIIFE) - Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival - 16 Jaipur International Film Festivals - In Jaipur - Mexico International Film Festival - The IndieFest Film Awards - 60th Cine Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media - 12th Athens Animfest -2017 - Ficci Baf (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 2017 Full Credit List : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lE8clZiabYujjzM-W_4xk6q4WibHu719VY2d9jNxD5k/edit Nominations and Official Selections : - The Ambulante Film festival for the kids section - Luchezarny Angel - Indie Meme Film Festival 2019 - New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF ) - Black Movie Film Festival’s - Kobane International Film Festival - International animation film festival Tindirindis in Lithuania - Cinekid Screening Club Invitation - Filem'On - International Film Festival - Ojai Film Festival - Lodz Animation Film Festival - Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival - 8th StopTrik IFF (International Stop Motion Competition ) - Krok Film Festival - Tai Kwun 2018 - Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival - Tokyo Anime Awards (TAFF) 2018 - Our Fest - Play Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival 2018 - 34th Cartoon Club, The INT. Film Festival of Animation Cinema And Comic - Linoleum Festival - 8th California International Shorts Festival (Fall) - Stockholm Experimental Film Festival - 11th Tehran International Animation Festival - Académie Des César - Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) - an Academy Award - Aualifying Festival - 2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival International Short Film Competition - 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival - New Filmmakers NY - Bucharest Short Film Festival - Zubroffka (kids contest) International Short Film Festival - Irvine International Film Festival - SIFFCY (Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth) - Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles IFFLA - Anilogue International Animation Festival - 20th International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) - Paris Courts Devant International Short Film Festival - Kansas International Film Festival - Reggio Film Festival - Kuandu International Animation Festival - Kaoshing Film Festival International Short Film Competition (KFF) - Festival Du Film D'Animation Pour la Jeunesse - KLIk Amsterdam Film Festival - Route 66 Film Festival - Hsin-Yi Children’s Animation Awards - 3D Wire Festival - Ile Courts International Short Film Festival - Indie-AniFest - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival - Festival International Du Film D'Animation De Paris (PIAFF) - Woodstock Museum Film Festival - La Guarimba International Film Festival - The San Diego International Kids' Film Festival - Tandil International Short Film - Bucheon International Animation Festival - Anima Mundi 2017 - Supertoon Animation Film Festival 2017 - 9th Edition Montreal stopMotion Animation Film Festival - 11th River Film Festival (RiFF) - 57th Zlin Film Festival - NCCC Film & Animation Festival - Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival - Animation Day in Cannes Accolade - Cortoons Festival Gandia - Animakom Fest - Cartoons on The Bay - Lucca Film Festival - Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia - Festival De Cinema En Famille De - Arthouse Asia - London City Film Awards - North Hollywood Cinefest - Solo International Film Festival - Liverpool Film Festival - Edinburgh Independent Film Awards - Glasgow International Film Festival - The Buddha International Film Festival (TBIFF)

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A clumsy accident leads a young girl onto the streets of Mumbai in the hope of making things right. A gentle and touching father/daughter story depicted in exquisite stop-motion from Indian animation mainstay, Studio Eeksaurus. Miscellaneous Video Links : - 1. Music Session -https://vimeo.com/392429595 2. Animating Tokri - https://vimeo.com/392426186 3. Pre-Production - https://vimeo.com/377728814 4. Sound Design - https://vimeo.com/392432285 5. Faces of Tokri - https://vimeo.com/290417516 6. Production Design - https://vimeo.com/330708363 7. Tokri Photoshoot - https://vimeo.com/360727855 Awards & Wins : - Luchezarny Angel Film Festival - The 11th Xiamen International Animation Festival - Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival (FYFF) - Crossroads Film Festival - Brroego Springs Film Festival - 65th National Film Award - 19th Crossroads Film Festival - Moscow Shorts April 2018 - Myrtle Beach International Film Festival - Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) - 4th Thessaloniki Animation Film Festival - 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival ( SICFF ) - International Short Film Festival Kolkata - Animation Studio Festival - Palm Springs International Animation Festival, 2018 (PSIAF ) - Short to The Point - Accolade Global Film Festival - 19th Digicon 6 Asia Awards - New Delhi Short Film Festival - The Smalls Film Festival - Great Lakes International Film Festival - Moondance International Film Festival - Long Island International Film Expo(LIIFE) - Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival - 16 Jaipur International Film Festivals - In Jaipur - Mexico International Film Festival - The IndieFest Film Awards - 60th Cine Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media - 12th Athens Animfest -2017 - Ficci Baf (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 2017 Full Credit List : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lE8clZiabYujjzM-W_4xk6q4WibHu719VY2d9jNxD5k/edit Nominations and Official Selections : - The Ambulante Film festival for the kids section - Luchezarny Angel - Indie Meme Film Festival 2019 - New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF ) - Black Movie Film Festival’s - Kobane International Film Festival - International animation film festival Tindirindis in Lithuania - Cinekid Screening Club Invitation - Filem'On - International Film Festival - Ojai Film Festival - Lodz Animation Film Festival - Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival - 8th StopTrik IFF (International Stop Motion Competition ) - Krok Film Festival - Tai Kwun 2018 - Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival - Tokyo Anime Awards (TAFF) 2018 - Our Fest - Play Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival 2018 - 34th Cartoon Club, The INT. Film Festival of Animation Cinema And Comic - Linoleum Festival - 8th California International Shorts Festival (Fall) - Stockholm Experimental Film Festival - 11th Tehran International Animation Festival - Académie Des César - Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) - an Academy Award - Aualifying Festival - 2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival International Short Film Competition - 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival - New Filmmakers NY - Bucharest Short Film Festival - Zubroffka (kids contest) International Short Film Festival - Irvine International Film Festival - SIFFCY (Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth) - Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles IFFLA - Anilogue International Animation Festival - 20th International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) - Paris Courts Devant International Short Film Festival - Kansas International Film Festival - Reggio Film Festival - Kuandu International Animation Festival - Kaoshing Film Festival International Short Film Competition (KFF) - Festival Du Film D'Animation Pour la Jeunesse - KLIk Amsterdam Film Festival - Route 66 Film Festival - Hsin-Yi Children’s Animation Awards - 3D Wire Festival - Ile Courts International Short Film Festival - Indie-AniFest - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival - Festival International Du Film D'Animation De Paris (PIAFF) - Woodstock Museum Film Festival - La Guarimba International Film Festival - The San Diego International Kids' Film Festival - Tandil International Short Film - Bucheon International Animation Festival - Anima Mundi 2017 - Supertoon Animation Film Festival 2017 - 9th Edition Montreal stopMotion Animation Film Festival - 11th River Film Festival (RiFF) - 57th Zlin Film Festival - NCCC Film & Animation Festival - Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival - Animation Day in Cannes Accolade - Cortoons Festival Gandia - Animakom Fest - Cartoons on The Bay - Lucca Film Festival - Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia - Festival De Cinema En Famille De - Arthouse Asia - London City Film Awards - North Hollywood Cinefest - Solo International Film Festival - Liverpool Film Festival - Edinburgh Independent Film Awards - Glasgow International Film Festival - The Buddha International Film Festival (TBIFF)

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Emad Kazemi Saeid, aka Deddin, is an upcoming independent artist, producer, and engineer born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Toronto. Moving to Canada at the age of 8, He found his passion for music when he started learning to play guitar and has continued ever since then. Since 2017, Deddin has proven himself as a producer and has been around and worked with artists such as Blocboy JB, Jeremih, hoodrich Pablo Juan, Sonny digital, etc. Deddin also developed himself as an artist and has created a unique ambient style mixed in the hip hop scene with the help of his production, coming up with music videos such as worth it. His latest work, “Miss CEO” with Bali Baby, was published in September 2019 through Warner Bros.

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A clumsy accident leads a young girl onto the streets of Mumbai in the hope of making things right. A gentle and touching father/daughter story depicted in exquisite stop-motion from Indian animation mainstay, Studio Eeksaurus. Miscellaneous Video Links : - 1. Music Session -https://ift.tt/2VXg0Xj 2. Animating Tokri - https://ift.tt/2BQC27c 3. Pre-Production - https://ift.tt/2VZkTPQ 4. Sound Design - https://ift.tt/31THAsd 5. Faces of Tokri - https://ift.tt/3iFm6pe 6. Production Design - https://ift.tt/31THAZf 7. Tokri Photoshoot - https://ift.tt/38Bbzqd Awards & Wins : - Luchezarny Angel Film Festival - The 11th Xiamen International Animation Festival - Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival (FYFF) - Crossroads Film Festival - Brroego Springs Film Festival - 65th National Film Award - 19th Crossroads Film Festival - Moscow Shorts April 2018 - Myrtle Beach International Film Festival - Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) - 4th Thessaloniki Animation Film Festival - 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival ( SICFF ) - International Short Film Festival Kolkata - Animation Studio Festival - Palm Springs International Animation Festival, 2018 (PSIAF ) - Short to The Point - Accolade Global Film Festival - 19th Digicon 6 Asia Awards - New Delhi Short Film Festival - The Smalls Film Festival - Great Lakes International Film Festival - Moondance International Film Festival - Long Island International Film Expo(LIIFE) - Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival - 16 Jaipur International Film Festivals - In Jaipur - Mexico International Film Festival - The IndieFest Film Awards - 60th Cine Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media - 12th Athens Animfest -2017 - Ficci Baf (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 2017 Full Credit List : https://ift.tt/3iDCfeE Nominations and Official Selections : - The Ambulante Film festival for the kids section - Luchezarny Angel - Indie Meme Film Festival 2019 - New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF ) - Black Movie Film Festival’s - Kobane International Film Festival - International animation film festival Tindirindis in Lithuania - Cinekid Screening Club Invitation - Filem'On - International Film Festival - Ojai Film Festival - Lodz Animation Film Festival - Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival - 8th StopTrik IFF (International Stop Motion Competition ) - Krok Film Festival - Tai Kwun 2018 - Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival - Tokyo Anime Awards (TAFF) 2018 - Our Fest - Play Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival 2018 - 34th Cartoon Club, The INT. Film Festival of Animation Cinema And Comic - Linoleum Festival - 8th California International Shorts Festival (Fall) - Stockholm Experimental Film Festival - 11th Tehran International Animation Festival - Académie Des César - Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) - an Academy Award - Aualifying Festival - 2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival International Short Film Competition - 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival - New Filmmakers NY - Bucharest Short Film Festival - Zubroffka (kids contest) International Short Film Festival - Irvine International Film Festival - SIFFCY (Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth) - Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles IFFLA - Anilogue International Animation Festival - 20th International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) - Paris Courts Devant International Short Film Festival - Kansas International Film Festival - Reggio Film Festival - Kuandu International Animation Festival - Kaoshing Film Festival International Short Film Competition (KFF) - Festival Du Film D'Animation Pour la Jeunesse - KLIk Amsterdam Film Festival - Route 66 Film Festival - Hsin-Yi Children’s Animation Awards - 3D Wire Festival - Ile Courts International Short Film Festival - Indie-AniFest - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival - Festival International Du Film D'Animation De Paris (PIAFF) - Woodstock Museum Film Festival - La Guarimba International Film Festival - The San Diego International Kids' Film Festival - Tandil International Short Film - Bucheon International Animation Festival - Anima Mundi 2017 - Supertoon Animation Film Festival 2017 - 9th Edition Montreal stopMotion Animation Film Festival - 11th River Film Festival (RiFF) - 57th Zlin Film Festival - NCCC Film & Animation Festival - Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival - Animation Day in Cannes Accolade - Cortoons Festival Gandia - Animakom Fest - Cartoons on The Bay - Lucca Film Festival - Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia - Festival De Cinema En Famille De - Arthouse Asia - London City Film Awards - North Hollywood Cinefest - Solo International Film Festival - Liverpool Film Festival - Edinburgh Independent Film Awards - Glasgow International Film Festival - The Buddha International Film Festival (TBIFF)

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Meet Kiarostami’s Nephew, L.A.-Based Filmmaker Sohrab Mirmont

Sohrab Mirmont is an award-winning director, writer and producer, and a member of the 100+ Million-View Club on YouTube. He comes from a family of famous filmmakers: He is the nephew of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, and the cousin of producer Ahmad Kiarostami.

Mirmont is the founder and CEO of Mirmont Pictures, a producer of everything from short films to feature films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos. He is also the president of Lurkin (TM), a venture studio that creates companies (including Mirmont’s own production company).

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Kayhan Life recently spoke to Sohrab Mirmont about his childhood in Iran, his film career, and his celebrated uncle.

 Your documentary for the BBC — “The Twins That Were Cut In Half” — has had more than 60 million views to date. Tell us about it.

 “The Twins That Were Cut In Half” is a short film I directed and produced that follows the lives of Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, twins who were born conjoined at their abdomens. They each controlled one leg, but shared a pelvis, kidney, and liver. When the twins were four years old, six surgeons and a team of 25 medical support staff undertook a groundbreaking 26-hour surgery to separate them.

The separation surgery was a success, and now Kendra and Maliyah are able to live their lives separately, unattached to each other. The documentary follows their story from birth to post-separation, and how they have impacted and inspired the people around them.

Why did you make this movie?

I had heard about the twins since I had lived in Utah — and they had also appeared on Oprah. When the BBC contacted me, and after seeing the tremendous bravery the twins exhibited and the diversity they had overcome, I knew I needed to share their story.

Kendra and Maliyah are an inspiration to anyone who knows them, and it is wonderful to see that their story has touched hundreds of millions of people, too. I am honored to have been able to capture and share their story, and it is an ongoing process. As they grow up, their story gets even more interesting and inspiring.

 I understand there will be a sequel?

The sequel is about another family with conjoined twins who are in a similar situation, and are about to go through a surgery comparable to the one that Kendra and Maliyah went through. It shows the new family and their interactions with the Herrin twins, pre- and post-surgery. It will be released later this year — the exact date is not yet known.

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You come from a very notable family of Iranian moviemakers. Your uncle Abbas Kiarostami and his son Ahmad are well known internationally. Did you ever work with your uncle or cousin?

 My uncle Abbas was always a mentor for me. Even though I saw him sporadically, we corresponded via email and phone calls. The last time I saw him was at the master filmmaking workshop he had invited me to in Syracuse, New York in 2014. While in Abbas’ workshop, I created a short film called “God’s Workshop,” which he was very fond of. He even joked, “I think I’m going to steal this idea.”

During the few days it took to make my film, Abbas was always present, giving advice, but also holding himself back from [giving] advice once he realized I was already doing what he was about to tell me. The two weeks I spent with my uncle Abbas both in the workshop and outside of it are memories and experiences I will always treasure and hold close to my heart.

My cousin Ahmad — Abbas’s son — is an exceptional person, and we stay in touch. He and I collaborated on a documentary pilot he was producing in 2019. We haven’t collaborated beyond that, but I am sure the future will bring us together on other projects.

 Is being part of a famous family a plus or a minus to get started in the movie industry?

It hasn’t been a plus or a minus. I don’t really publicize the fact that Abbas is my uncle, and my last name is different, so most people don’t know. Sometimes, when I am in a circle of cultured filmmakers, it comes up, and everyone is enthralled. But as my father has always said: ”Make your own name.”

I suppose if my last name was Kiarostami, paired with my current film resume, advancing would be easier, but I would rather create meaningful content and let that speak for itself. I believe it’s the same ideology Abbas had… let the work speak for itself.

You’ve been involved in every aspect of filmmaking. Which do you prefer?

When I was a young boy, I dreamed of being an actor — mainly because my uncle was a renowned film director, and I would watch his work and be in awe. At the time, I really only knew about acting, and even though my uncle was a successful director, I never saw him in action. I only saw what he created, and it was always filled with actors on screen.

It wasn’t until I moved to America that I found that my true passion was behind the camera, as a director. When I was 14, I recall wanting to make a short film for a film competition. I wrote the script and planned to act in it. I asked my brother to do the camerawork. After a couple of scenes, it was very apparent that I was extremely particular in how I wanted the frames to look, so I switched roles and ended up being behind the camera.

 In those first few moments behind the camera, I felt so alive, fell in love, and haven’t looked back since. I still do cameos in my projects from time to time, but directing and all that comes with it — creating a vision, telling a story, working with actors and crew, is my true love and calling.

                                  Where did you grow up, and what led you to filmmaking?

 I was born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It was a tumultuous time to be born, and my mother had many reservations about giving birth to me during that time (I was twice on the abortion table). She decided to go through with having me, and I’m so thankful she did.

 I lived in Iran until I was 6, which is when my father moved my siblings and myself to the United States as a result of a chance visa lottery, which my grandmother won. Pre-revolution, my father was very wealthy, having owned a chain of jewelry stores, and later a manufacturing company. There, he spoke with his partners against the new Iranian regime, and they turned him in to the authorities so as to take full control of the company. All of his assets were permanently frozen; he was thrown in jail, and nearly executed.

 When my father arrived in the United States, he had three children and $5,000 to his name, and was led to believe that his wife, our mother, would be a week or two behind. In the end, my mother was denied a visa for more than six years, and was not able to join us in the United States until I was 12.

 Even in her absence, she gave me the greatest gift in life: of allowing me to be whoever I wanted to be, and when she rejoined us six years later, she was still my biggest supporter, always encouraging me, driving me to acting auditions, and flying me to visit my uncle Abbas.

 What made you want to be an actor?

When I was 7 years old in America, I was watching the TV show “Home Improvement,” and when the credit reel rolled with the blooper outtakes, I realized that the people on screen were playing make-believe. It was the first time that I realized that everyone on TV was an actor, and I thought to myself, “There is no better job in the world than that.”

 Acting is where I got my feet wet, before becoming aware of the vast world that filmmaking is. Now, I can’t imagine anything other than directing. In my family, they call me “The Dictator,” and I accept it. It describes me as a director perfectly. As a result of my experience, I know how to work with people to get exactly what I want.

 Do you have plans to go back to Iran?

I have not been back to Iran since I moved to America. I have always wanted to go back to Iran, but with the current political and civil tensions, I plan to stay put for now. I do stay in touch with young Iranian filmmakers, most of them living in LA currently. I look forward to collaborations and connections here and abroad.

   What is your next project? Can you give us some details?

 At the time of this interview, I have a few projects in development ranging from a comedic family Christmas film to an original series for YouTube. What my next big project will be, well, maybe it will be a collaboration with one of your readers. The future is bright, and with more connections, it grows brighter!

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Éponine's death at the barricades

A female insurgent comes to embrace and comfort her, and Marius watches on.

Other female insurgents try to aid her. At least Éponine did not die alone, and had a crowd of women who comforted her.

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Journal - Why Concrete Could Still Have a Place in Sustainable Construction

Architizer’s A+Awards, the world’s largest awards program for architecture and building products, has a special theme this year — “The Future of Architecture” is aimed at unearthing the most forward-thinking projects around the globe, with a particular focus on architecture that responds to the most urgent issues of our time. The A+Awards is open for entries now, so be sure your firm submits its best projects to be in the running for global recognition this year:

Enter the 8th Annual A+Awards

As the most widely used manmade material today, concrete transcends both climate and style. It is also the second-largest emitter of CO2. With the climate crisis now coming to the fore, architects and designers are exploring new solutions to concrete mixtures, from the reduction of cement in glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) to the integration of bio-based materials. These innovations begin to show how concrete can continue to have a place in increasingly sustainable cities.

The following collection of A+Award-winning projects explore concrete’s potential through different mixtures and formworks. As investigations into organization, texture and pattern, they explore how designers are rethinking concrete for the future.

170 Amsterdam by Handel Architects LLP, New York, NY, United States 2016 Jury Choice A+Award

The client for 170 Amsterdam wanted to maximize floor area on a long narrow site on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They did not want an all glass building, but wanted the benefits of large windows without compromising energy efficiency. The intersections of the structure rise to the top of the building at different heights, giving the appearance of a façade in motion while also allowing for the prefabricated fiberglass formwork to be reused with the concrete cycle.

The concrete used to create the exoskeleton is the result of a specialized mix that gives the material the appearance of limestone, a nod to the buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. The concrete mix was a dense, high fluid self-consolidating mix, using grey cement and slag to achieve a light grey finish and meet LEED standards.

Rowzan Residence by RYRA Studio, Tehran, Iran 2017 Popular and Jury Choice A+Awards

The Rowzan Residence is a private residential building in a private triplex unit upon two individual flats. The project is located in Zaferanieh neighborhood in the northern part of Tehran, sited on a steep slope which overlooks the city skyline. The main design goal was to take advantage of this view.

The project is organized into three parts which settle on the slope gradually. The architects designed a perforated concrete shell that acts as a second skin protecting the inner transparent mass which has been set back. In turn, large windows allow the maximum possible light.

Foro Boca by Rojkind Arquitectos, Boca del Río, Mexico 2018 Jury Choice A+Award

In 2014, the Boca del Rio Philharmonic Orchestra was formed, and through its performances it has attracted diverse musical expressions, local and foreign musicians, making it the heart of the cultural life of the city.

Foro Boca appropriates the timeless expression of the concretes cubes formed by ripraps in the breakwater, assimilating them as its origin and re-interpreting them in a building made of apparent concrete, forming various areas of volume that contain the concert hall.

The People’s Chapel by POIESIS ARCHITECTS, Singapore 2018 A+Awards Special Mention

Emmanuel at Everitt is a small church sitting on a sliver of land in a residential estate. The original church occupied a single story corner terrace house built in the 1940s. Plans for rebuilding came about after heavy downpour in October 2010 caused serious damage, rendering it unsafe for occupation.

While being elevated for flood protection, a singular off-form concrete volume was conceived, in line with the scale and height of the neighborhood, creating a sensitive insertion into its existing fabric. A garden terrace on the roof required by the National Parks Board for greenery replacement delicately balances the austere grey of the concrete volume.

Shui Cultural Center by West-line Studio, Sandu, Qiannan, China 2018 Popular Choice A+Award

Located in Guizhou Province, the Cultural Center is a gateway to Sandu County, the land of the Shui, one of the ethnic minority groups in China. Despite being few in number, the Shui people still retains their own language, together with their unique system of pictographs.

The project references their traditions and long history. The concrete is marked by a wooden pattern, given by the pine quarterdecks. Pine wood is one of the most common materials in the Sandu area and the contemporary concrete structure echoes the local traditional wooden architecture.

University of Miami Thomas P. Murphy Building by Arquitectonica, Coral Gables, FL, United States 2019 A+Awards Special Mention

The new studio building for the University of Miami provides a space conducive to learning and studying, but also serves as a teaching tool by illustrating some of the basic tenets of modern architecture. The building is located at the center of an intersection, creating a plaza and adjoining pathway that act as a link from the campus to the Miami Metrorail.

The southern wall peels away to address the portico of the existing auditorium and gallery. The warping corner of the roof folds over the southernmost tip of the building, shading the interior space from the strongest sunlight.

KnitCandela by ETH Zurich, Block Research Group, R-Ex and Zaha Hadid Architects, Ciudad de México, Mexico 2019 Popular and Jury Choice A+Awards

KnitCandela is a thin, sinuous concrete waffle shell. Built on an ultra-lightweight knitted formwork, which was brought from Switzerland to Mexico in two suitcases, KnitCandela demonstrates that employing a flexible cable-net formwork together with a knitted textile can cut down on material, labour, and construction waste, while simplifying and streamlining the construction process for sophisticated shapes in concrete.

Got an amazing concrete project of your own completed in the last 3 years? Submit it for a 2020 A+Award to be in the running for international publication by Phaidon, huge online exposure and the iconic A+Awards trophy!

Enter the 8th Annual A+Awards

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A clumsy accident leads a young girl onto the streets of Mumbai in the hope of making things right. A gentle and touching father/daughter story depicted in exquisite stop-motion from Indian animation mainstay, Studio Eeksaurus. Miscellaneous Video Links : - 1. Music Session -https://bit.ly/3h8BDvQ 2. Animating Tokri - https://bit.ly/3j82Kcv 3. Pre-Production - https://bit.ly/2ZACek0 4. Sound Design - https://bit.ly/2ZyQVnN 5. Faces of Tokri - https://bit.ly/394t0j7 6. Production Design - https://bit.ly/2CAKzeF 7. Tokri Photoshoot - https://bit.ly/30hDLL5 Awards & Wins : - Luchezarny Angel Film Festival - The 11th Xiamen International Animation Festival - Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival (FYFF) - Crossroads Film Festival - Brroego Springs Film Festival - 65th National Film Award - 19th Crossroads Film Festival - Moscow Shorts April 2018 - Myrtle Beach International Film Festival - Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) - 4th Thessaloniki Animation Film Festival - 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival ( SICFF ) - International Short Film Festival Kolkata - Animation Studio Festival - Palm Springs International Animation Festival, 2018 (PSIAF ) - Short to The Point - Accolade Global Film Festival - 19th Digicon 6 Asia Awards - New Delhi Short Film Festival - The Smalls Film Festival - Great Lakes International Film Festival - Moondance International Film Festival - Long Island International Film Expo(LIIFE) - Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival - 16 Jaipur International Film Festivals - In Jaipur - Mexico International Film Festival - The IndieFest Film Awards - 60th Cine Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media - 12th Athens Animfest -2017 - Ficci Baf (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 2017 Full Credit List : https://bit.ly/2OtiM2j Nominations and Official Selections : - The Ambulante Film festival for the kids section - Luchezarny Angel - Indie Meme Film Festival 2019 - New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF ) - Black Movie Film Festival’s - Kobane International Film Festival - International animation film festival Tindirindis in Lithuania - Cinekid Screening Club Invitation - Filem'On - International Film Festival - Ojai Film Festival - Lodz Animation Film Festival - Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival - 8th StopTrik IFF (International Stop Motion Competition ) - Krok Film Festival - Tai Kwun 2018 - Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival - Tokyo Anime Awards (TAFF) 2018 - Our Fest - Play Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival 2018 - 34th Cartoon Club, The INT. Film Festival of Animation Cinema And Comic - Linoleum Festival - 8th California International Shorts Festival (Fall) - Stockholm Experimental Film Festival - 11th Tehran International Animation Festival - Académie Des César - Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) - an Academy Award - Aualifying Festival - 2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival International Short Film Competition - 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival - New Filmmakers NY - Bucharest Short Film Festival - Zubroffka (kids contest) International Short Film Festival - Irvine International Film Festival - SIFFCY (Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth) - Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles IFFLA - Anilogue International Animation Festival - 20th International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) - Paris Courts Devant International Short Film Festival - Kansas International Film Festival - Reggio Film Festival - Kuandu International Animation Festival - Kaoshing Film Festival International Short Film Competition (KFF) - Festival Du Film D'Animation Pour la Jeunesse - KLIk Amsterdam Film Festival - Route 66 Film Festival - Hsin-Yi Children’s Animation Awards - 3D Wire Festival - Ile Courts International Short Film Festival - Indie-AniFest - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival - Festival International Du Film D'Animation De Paris (PIAFF) - Woodstock Museum Film Festival - La Guarimba International Film Festival - The San Diego International Kids' Film Festival - Tandil International Short Film - Bucheon International Animation Festival - Anima Mundi 2017 - Supertoon Animation Film Festival 2017 - 9th Edition Montreal stopMotion Animation Film Festival - 11th River Film Festival (RiFF) - 57th Zlin Film Festival - NCCC Film & Animation Festival - Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival - Animation Day in Cannes Accolade - Cortoons Festival Gandia - Animakom Fest - Cartoons on The Bay - Lucca Film Festival - Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia - Festival De Cinema En Famille De - Arthouse Asia - London City Film Awards - North Hollywood Cinefest - Solo International Film Festival - Liverpool Film Festival - Edinburgh Independent Film Awards - Glasgow International Film Festival - The Buddha International Film Festival (TBIFF)

[kamibekami]

Meet with Kamibekami, Iranian Composer and Singer, Song Writer, Musician

Kambiz Noorollahi (born September 7, 1988, Tehran, Iran)better known by his stage name Kamibekami, is a singer, song writer, musician, composer, Music Producer.

Career :

Kambiz noorollahi started his career at a young age, he officially entered the field of music and production. His nickname in cyberspace is “Kamibekami” and he is known as the creator of visual music. Music that plays with the human mind and has hidden messages. His collaborations have been released in the form of several albums and singles. His best album according to his fans, is called “Masters of the Universe” and this album has 6 tracks with a special arrangement that are, Masters of the Universe, Hybrid, White Dream, THIS IS ENERGY, Free Zone , If all the above, and Celentic Age. Kambiz Noorollahi mostly produces music in the field of instrumental with House and Trance genres and has several examples of singing in his multi-year resume. If we want to name some of his most seen tracks, we can refer to singles such as: Hybrid (2020), Rain Drops (2020), White Dream(2020), Masters of the Universe(2019).

[courtneytincher]

Brussels Edition: Back in the Saddle

(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weekday morning.Summer’s over and we’re back. It’s not like anything major happened while we were away. Well, okay, Italy is getting a new government; Emmanuel Macron threatened to block the EU’s Mercosur trade deal, outraged over the Amazon fires; and the U.K.’s new prime minister is being accused of undermining parliamentary democracy. But buckle up. There’s more excitement in store. This week, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to start deciding on the allocation of portfolios in her new team, which will determine key policies for the next five years. While governments are lobbying for important slots, Brussels officials say the president-elect is keeping her cards close to her chest, so be ready for some surprises.What’s HappeningPompeo in Town | U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is in town tonight and tomorrow, and is expected to meet von der Leyen. There’s no shortage of issues to discuss, from trade tariffs to climate policy. The EU’s most immediate concern is the collapsing Iran nuclear deal, with Thursday marking the latest deadline from Tehran before it starts enriching uranium at higher levels.Fork in the Road | Today marks the start of one of the most crucial weeks in modern British political history. Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament from next week until the middle of October means the next few days may be the last chance for MPs to block a no-deal Brexit. What happens between now and next weekend could alter the course of the U.K.’s departure from the EU, prompt a general election, upend Britain’s unwritten constitution and change the country for decades.Italian Government | Italy’s old and new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is hard at work on putting together his team of ministers and laying out the priorities of his new government. The new coalition supporting him — an unlikely alliance between the former rivals of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party — may be just as difficult to manage as the previous partnership that collapsed last month.Economy Clues | The mood music for the ECB’s upcoming Sept. 12 policy decision is getting louder. German factory orders and industrial production data will reveal whether the weakness of the second quarter persisted into July, while speeches by policy makers including ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane may offer clues and guidance, amid growing resistance to demands for further stimulus.In Case You Missed ItPopulists Thwarted | Angela Merkel’s troubled coalition avoided a deeper crisis by securing enough support to hang on to power in two states in Germany’s former communist east. But the less-than-convincing victories owe more to voters turning out to keep the far-right AfD from winning elections for the first time than conviction in the government’s direction.German Coal | German populists have been riding the wave of discontent about the government’s decision to phase out coal-fired power generation. Germany’s mining heartland is just one of many battlegrounds emerging across Europe as demands for climate action clash with the continent’s economic reality and tradition.Rooftop Power | There’s little doubt that arresting and adapting to climate change is becoming the new fault line in European politics. But there are solutions: Europeans can massively expand low-cost solar generation just by tapping the space over their heads.  Jonathan Tirone has the story.Spanish Instability | Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is convinced he can still form a minority government and avoid fresh elections after his Socialist party failed over the summer to win a confidence vote. While Sanchez ruled out new talks to form a ruling coalition with the anti-austerity party Podemos, he insisted he can reach consensus with them over a policy program.Secession Movements | One of the biggest hurdles to Spanish political stability is the continuing row with Catalan separatists. Here’s why. In other secessionist news, polls show that support for Scottish independence is growing. But while the political and emotional arguments may be stacking up, questions remain over the economics of such a move, as Eddie Spence explains.Chart of the DayThe EU may still be waiting for Italy to propose its European Commissioner, but there’s little question that Ursula von der Leyen, who has vowed to lead a gender-balanced executive, will get as many women on her team as she wanted. With the U.K. saying it won’t nominate anyone as it intends to leave the bloc by the end of October, von der Leyen has 11 female and 13 male candidates — Romania nominated one of each.Today’s AgendaAll times CET.10 a.m. EU foreign policy chief Mogherini speaks at annual EU Ambassadors Conference in Brussels U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo in Brussels, meetings closed to media EU diplomats in Brussels to discuss six-month extension of sanctions targeting Russia over undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty. They will also discuss amending the list of individuals and entities targeted Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi visits Paris with an economic delegation to discuss French proposals for preserving the nuclear deal European Central Bank Vice President De Guindos, Executive Board members Mersch and Lautenschlaeger speak at ECB Legal Conference in FrankfurtLike the Brussels Edition?Don’t keep it to yourself. Colleagues and friends can sign up here. We also publish the Brexit Bulletin, a daily briefing on the latest on the U.K.’s departure from the EU, and Terms of Trade on the global trade tensions. For even more: Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access for full global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close.How are we doing? We want to hear what you think about this newsletter. Let our Brussels bureau chief know.\--With assistance from Craig Stirling, Alessandro Speciale and John Follain.To contact the authors of this story: Viktoria Dendrinou in Brussels at vdendrinou@bloomberg.netNikos Chrysoloras in Brussels at nchrysoloras@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Vidya N Root at vroot@bloomberg.net, Iain RogersFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weekday morning.Summer’s over and we’re back. It’s not like anything major happened while we were away. Well, okay, Italy is getting a new government; Emmanuel Macron threatened to block the EU’s Mercosur trade deal, outraged over the Amazon fires; and the U.K.’s new prime minister is being accused of undermining parliamentary democracy. But buckle up. There’s more excitement in store. This week, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to start deciding on the allocation of portfolios in her new team, which will determine key policies for the next five years. While governments are lobbying for important slots, Brussels officials say the president-elect is keeping her cards close to her chest, so be ready for some surprises.What’s HappeningPompeo in Town | U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is in town tonight and tomorrow, and is expected to meet von der Leyen. There’s no shortage of issues to discuss, from trade tariffs to climate policy. The EU’s most immediate concern is the collapsing Iran nuclear deal, with Thursday marking the latest deadline from Tehran before it starts enriching uranium at higher levels.Fork in the Road | Today marks the start of one of the most crucial weeks in modern British political history. Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament from next week until the middle of October means the next few days may be the last chance for MPs to block a no-deal Brexit. What happens between now and next weekend could alter the course of the U.K.’s departure from the EU, prompt a general election, upend Britain’s unwritten constitution and change the country for decades.Italian Government | Italy’s old and new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is hard at work on putting together his team of ministers and laying out the priorities of his new government. The new coalition supporting him — an unlikely alliance between the former rivals of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party — may be just as difficult to manage as the previous partnership that collapsed last month.Economy Clues | The mood music for the ECB’s upcoming Sept. 12 policy decision is getting louder. German factory orders and industrial production data will reveal whether the weakness of the second quarter persisted into July, while speeches by policy makers including ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane may offer clues and guidance, amid growing resistance to demands for further stimulus.In Case You Missed ItPopulists Thwarted | Angela Merkel’s troubled coalition avoided a deeper crisis by securing enough support to hang on to power in two states in Germany’s former communist east. But the less-than-convincing victories owe more to voters turning out to keep the far-right AfD from winning elections for the first time than conviction in the government’s direction.German Coal | German populists have been riding the wave of discontent about the government’s decision to phase out coal-fired power generation. Germany’s mining heartland is just one of many battlegrounds emerging across Europe as demands for climate action clash with the continent’s economic reality and tradition.Rooftop Power | There’s little doubt that arresting and adapting to climate change is becoming the new fault line in European politics. But there are solutions: Europeans can massively expand low-cost solar generation just by tapping the space over their heads.  Jonathan Tirone has the story.Spanish Instability | Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is convinced he can still form a minority government and avoid fresh elections after his Socialist party failed over the summer to win a confidence vote. While Sanchez ruled out new talks to form a ruling coalition with the anti-austerity party Podemos, he insisted he can reach consensus with them over a policy program.Secession Movements | One of the biggest hurdles to Spanish political stability is the continuing row with Catalan separatists. Here’s why. In other secessionist news, polls show that support for Scottish independence is growing. But while the political and emotional arguments may be stacking up, questions remain over the economics of such a move, as Eddie Spence explains.Chart of the DayThe EU may still be waiting for Italy to propose its European Commissioner, but there’s little question that Ursula von der Leyen, who has vowed to lead a gender-balanced executive, will get as many women on her team as she wanted. With the U.K. saying it won’t nominate anyone as it intends to leave the bloc by the end of October, von der Leyen has 11 female and 13 male candidates — Romania nominated one of each.Today’s AgendaAll times CET.10 a.m. EU foreign policy chief Mogherini speaks at annual EU Ambassadors Conference in Brussels U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo in Brussels, meetings closed to media EU diplomats in Brussels to discuss six-month extension of sanctions targeting Russia over undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty. They will also discuss amending the list of individuals and entities targeted Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi visits Paris with an economic delegation to discuss French proposals for preserving the nuclear deal European Central Bank Vice President De Guindos, Executive Board members Mersch and Lautenschlaeger speak at ECB Legal Conference in FrankfurtLike the Brussels Edition?Don’t keep it to yourself. Colleagues and friends can sign up here. We also publish the Brexit Bulletin, a daily briefing on the latest on the U.K.’s departure from the EU, and Terms of Trade on the global trade tensions. For even more: Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access for full global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close.How are we doing? We want to hear what you think about this newsletter. Let our Brussels bureau chief know.\--With assistance from Craig Stirling, Alessandro Speciale and John Follain.To contact the authors of this story: Viktoria Dendrinou in Brussels at vdendrinou@bloomberg.netNikos Chrysoloras in Brussels at nchrysoloras@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Vidya N Root at vroot@bloomberg.net, Iain RogersFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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