createspace.com: 'Letters from Iran' directed by Nezam Manouchehri is a moving expression of an exile's return to his homeland and the impressions it stirs in him. It involves an effective blend of direct experience and flashback, seamlessly handled, so that the viewer easily synchronizes with the filmmaker in his sense of both homecoming and lonesome nostalgia. 'Letters form Iran' provides a glimpse of a generation of intellectuals blocked by political crisis from a true testimony to the diversity and the contradictions of a vast and varied nation, with both Islamic and Occidental sensibilities" >>>
You can order Nezam Manouchehri’s three films from here:
* Letters from Iran
* A World Between
You can also watch clips of his films here:
* Letters from Iran
* A World Between
For organizing institutional viewings of Nezam Manouchehri's films, please contact: info@paradisa.org
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Nezam Manouchehri also played in Deserted Station in 2002
by Anonymouse on Mon Nov 16, 2009 08:27 AM PSTDeserted Station is a good movie too and I'd recomment it. Says made in 2002.
//www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Deserted_Station/70002263?strackid=419cdf12b3d7ab33_0_srl&strkid=309858936_0_0&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&trkid=222336
Everything is sacred.
Letters from Amrika
by Q mars on Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:13 PM PSTIn general documentaries are hard to be intimate, for an obvious reason; they are documentaries, but "Letters from America" is as intimate as a documentary can get. Nezam Manoochehri's film is a personal journey, so we can not argue how this representation differs from reality, and of course the closer film comes to reproducing reality, the less room there is in which the artist can create his effects.Is it possible to be a realist and still story-teller? He knows language of cinema. Was he successful? Most of the time. Character selection was successful at times with a hidden wit, and sometimes a bit too long. I enjoyed watching it, although it could use a better editing.
Good film
by Yara on Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:09 AM PSTThank you for the review. I saw this film at the San Francisco Iranian Film Festival. The film has a look at us and at America which is honest. As narrator of his own film, Mr. Manouchehri seemed vulnerable and real. Some things in the film changed for the worse, such as US' economic conditions, but some things may have changed for the better, such as Obama's election. I have also seen the World in Between with Jason Rezaeian. That was a good film, too. I'll try and see Letters from Iran now. Everyone should support independent films made by and about Iranians.
I already did..
by Monda on Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:35 PM PST..forward the clip, contact info and your write up, to Mr. Fishkin of Christopher B. Smith/Rafael Theatre, who also organizes the Mill Valley and Tiburon Film Festivals. And I will follow up until I get a positive answer out of him :o)
Thanks
by Nazy Kaviani on Sat Nov 14, 2009 05:32 PM PSTDear Yolanda, Red Wine, Monda, Ebi, and Shahnaz Jan,
Thank you so much for your kind and supportive words, as usual. It is an important film which documents our days and times in the US. Letters from America can be ordered by writing to info@paradisa.org.
The best kind of help to this independent filmmaker is to help him show his film to others. If you know of anyone or any institution who might wish to organize a viewing, please tell them to contact Mr. Manouchehri at info@paradisa.org .
Dear MPD
by Nazy Kaviani on Sat Nov 14, 2009 05:27 PM PSTThe way I do photo essays is to send the numbered photographs and line by line descriptions for them (e.g. #2: "I was late to the show.") to Jahanshah. He puts the photo essays together. I don't think twenty photographs would be too hard to do. I can't wait to see your photo essay!
Dear Bijan A M
by Nazy Kaviani on Sat Nov 14, 2009 05:22 PM PSTThank you. You are very kind. Bijan, I_A_M your advocate all the time!
so very true .......
by sbglobe on Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:33 AM PST"I wonder whether it’s the many parallels the filmmaker’s life has had with mine, almost telling my story in his film, or whether it is the fact that as a community and a group of displaced Iranians, romantically calling ourselves “The Iranian diaspora,” we have a million common wounds which cover our soul and would not stop throbbing and aching unless we place ourselves in the company of others like ourselves, telling and hearing our stories with our different voices and textures"!
Nicely done Nazy jan!
Shahnaz
Nazy Jaan
by ebi amirhosseini on Sat Nov 14, 2009 09:45 AM PSTSepaas for sharing.
Ebi aka Haaji
Beautiful photo essay!
by Monda on Sat Nov 14, 2009 09:42 AM PSTOn a movie which I badly wanted to see. Got there very late (spent 45 mins looking for parking spot - my fault, should've left sooner)
Good thing you reminded me to order my copy right away.
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by Red Wine on Sat Nov 14, 2009 01:29 AM PSTI enjoyed like always ... Thank you Nazy jan .
Hi Nazy,
by Multiple Personality Disorder on Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:45 PM PSTWhat do I have to do if I want to post some pictures, about 20, with some explantions, like you did with yours. Is it a lot of work?
Thank you for your Photo Essay,
WOW.....
by Bijan A M on Fri Nov 13, 2009 08:18 PM PSTWhat a great tribute to an artist in such elegantly prepared pictory. Well done Ms. Kaviani. I'll make sure to get the film and watch it.
I would love to have you on my side.....you are such a great advocate.
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by yolanda on Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:32 PM PSTThank you for all the captions. #43 is my favorite 'cause it looks very Persian.
//iranian.com/main/image/86984
There seems to be some discrepancy, the picture number has shifted by one....when I click on #43 thumbnail, the full picture is numbered as 42....very strange...