- Yassamin Maleknasr
Yassamin Maleknasr (also spelt Yasman Malek-Nasr, born
Tehran ,Iran ) is an internationally acclaimedIran ianfilmmaker andactress .Career
Yassamin Maleknasr is a graduate of filmmaking from
University of Southern California , USC. She did post-graduate work inDrama atTowson State University inMaryland . She made her first short film, "Jazz Ballet" in the U.S, and after several years working at American film companies, she returned to Tehran to perform inDariush Mehrjui 's film Sara (1993) for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Award from theFajr International Film Festival in Tehran. She has also acted in a number of other Iranian features.Maleknasr directed her debut feature film, "The Common Plight" in 1995, and has made several documentaries including "Bababaghi", which documents the lives of lepers and their families living in the outskirts of
Tabriz , and "Iran through Foreign Eyes", in which foreign-born women express their views on life in Iranian society. In 2003 she took a journey toAfghanistan , making the film "Afghanistan, The Lost Truth".She later made a film about the earthquake in
Bam, Iran , followed by "Love and Unity" onRumi , which was shot inKonya andIstanbul ,Turkey . She has been working on a project on women of theSilk Road since 2006.See also
* Iranian cinema
*List of famous Persian women External links
*imdb name|0539329|Yasman Malek-Nasr
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