Profile: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
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M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago. She taught at the School of Television and Cinema in Iran and edited and produced short documentaries and television series. She has made several short films, documentaries, and industrials in the United States and England. Her films Ruins Within, Saless, Far From Home and A Tajik Woman have been shown in many festivals. She is the winner of the 11th AFI/Sony first prize and a jury grand prize at the 20th Annual Festival of Illinois Film & Video Artists in 1995 for her film "A Tajik Woman.” She has been the Artistic Consultant of the Festival of Films from Iran, at the Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago since 1989. Mehrnaz has written and lectured extensively on Iranian cinema. Her book on Abbas Kiarostami co-written with Jonathan Rosenbaum was published by the University of Illinois Press in March 2003.