Award-winning Iranian-
American director Ana
Lily Amirpour is working on a new film entitled Ketab, a drama about the lives of Iran’s youth.
The film addresses the current dichotomies the youth of Tehran are facing and their fight for basic freedoms.
“Ketab is actually a scene from my feature script, The Stones. I plan to use this short film to show the industry that a foreign film about Iranian youth is not just important and topical, it’s also an entertaining journey….. With what’s going on in Iran today, it’s never felt more necessary to tell these types of stories,” Amirpour said.
The film is set to star Sam Golzari, whose debut films included American Dreamz and 21. Co-stars in the film include Iranian-American actors Max Amini, Sheila Vand and Marshall Manesh—who has appeared in dozens of films and television shows including Year One, True Lies, How I Met Your Mother, Will and Grace and Entourage.
In 2008, Amirpour’s feature script for The Stones was included in the All Access program of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Adrienne Shelly Fellowship. “There will be a special presentation of my project at the Tribeca Film Festival this April where they will screen Ketab…. It’s great exposure for my feature film which I hope to be shooting in fall of 2010.”
Amirpour has had her films screened at major international festivals and has won several major awards for her future screenplay, including the 2007 Grand Prize Bluecat Screen-writing Competition, the 2009 Tribeca All Access Participant and the 2009 Adrienne Shelly Fellowship. Amirpour is also the co-founder of Say Ahh… Productions, an independent company creating film and music videos.
More about Amirpour is available on her website: www.analilyamirpour.com