Iranian of the Day

america.gov: Farbod Khoshtinat describes himself as “an artist, an Iranian filmmaker and a 21-year-old freedom fighter.” “I believe that one of the greatest things about art is that it gives us the ability to see, imagine and feel things in a certain way,” he says. Khoshtinat says he was motivated to participate in the Democracy Video Challenge because he wanted “to give the opportunity to people around the world to see how democracy is practiced in my country,” as visualized through art. “As a young student who is studying abroad, this was the least thing I could do for my people since we all are in the quest for democracy,” he says >>> america.gov