Author Archives: elinexplores

Herewith a recent review of Finding Farideh written by Joel Kalkopf from Australia. Finding Farideh was showing in Australia during the Persian Film Festival in Sydney. Thank you Joel for this wonderful review!

Monday 16th of December is an important date for everyone whose film has been sent off to the Oscars, Academy Awards in Los Angeles. On Monday the announcement of the shortlist of the categories will be published in the morning … Continue reading →

Lovely review of Finding Farideh by Deborah Young in The Hollywood Reporter! A gentle, straightforward story filled with emotion. Click here for the article… and enjoy! Thank you Deborah Young! And for making my ego a happy one today… “The … Continue reading →

My second day I left for the Pacific Ocean… after all the excitement of yesterday, this was exactly what I needed to do. Walking down the ocean as my host Kamran was living only a few miles away from Ocean … Continue reading →

The last time I was in Los Angeles was in 1999, exactly 20 years ago,  as that was the last stop of my ‘Tour around the world in 80 days’ with my boyfriend at that time. We stayed in the … Continue reading →

Last week I got back I realized the situation in Iran is pretty bad.. I couldn’t write about my experience in LA right away as I was feeling sad, confused and felt pain for all the Iranians in Iran who … Continue reading →

Finding Farideh has two screenings at Asian World Film Festival and I will be there to answer all your questions after the film! Finding Farideh will screen at: 7th of November at 14.00h 11th of November at 21.00H Archlight Cinema … Continue reading →