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Azadeh Navai

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1706627

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Tehran, Iran

Gender: Female

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Career span: 2014 - 2023

Years active: 10

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Biography

Azadeh Navai (born 1985, Iran) holds an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA in Graphic Design from University of Tehran. She creates 16mm and digital films with the focus on visual memory, its imprints through time and its fluctuations through age. Her films have been shown in a number of venues, including New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Mothlight Microcinema, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, San Diego Underground Festival and REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles. Her film, Friday Mosque, won the Jury Award at Binghamton University Film Festival (SEFF), and her other film, Remembering the Pentagons, was mentioned on Artforum in 2016, as well as winning the Best Experimental Short award at FILMADRID. In her latest piece, The Yellow Curtain, she examines the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian revolution through her grandfather's memories. Navai lives and works in Los Angeles.

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