Nahid Persson Sarvestani (born 24 May 1960) is a Swedish-Iranian
documentary film director.Her most famous documentary films are
Prostitution Behind the Veil, My Mother â€" A Persian Princess, The
End of Exile, and The Last Days of Life. In 2007, after having been
arrested and briefly imprisoned by the authorities in Iran for
allegedly having shamed her native country with her documentary on two
prostitutes in Tehran, she completed the documentary Four Wives - One
Man under difficult and dangerous conditions. The film which portrays
a polygamous family south of Shiraz, was smuggled out of Iran and
finally edited in Sweden. As of November 2008, Persson Sarvestani
recently finished the production of The Queen and I, a 90-minute
documentary in which the director's year-long, complex relationship
with the Iranian former Empress Farah Pahlavi is examined. The film
had its North American premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and
is under worldwide release in conjunction with the 30-year anniversary
of the Islamic Revolution in 2009.Persson Sarvestani has received
several awards for her films. The Last Days of Life received the
Swedish Cancer Foundation's (Cancerfondens) Journalist Prize in 2002.
The film Prostitution Behind The Veil, a controversial and painfully
revealing account of the lives of two prostitutes in Tehran, received
an International Emmy nomination, as well as the Golden Dragon at the
Kraków Film Festival, Best International News Documentary at the
TV-festival 2005 in Monte Carlo, as well as The Crystal Award
(Kristallen) by SVT (Swedish public broadcasting television) and the
Golden Scarab (Guldbaggen) by the Swedish Film Institute in
2005.Persson Sarvestani also shares TCO's (Tjänstemännens
Centralorganisation) 2005 Cultural Prize with the author Marjaneh
Bakhtiari.
documentary film director.Her most famous documentary films are
Prostitution Behind the Veil, My Mother â€" A Persian Princess, The
End of Exile, and The Last Days of Life. In 2007, after having been
arrested and briefly imprisoned by the authorities in Iran for
allegedly having shamed her native country with her documentary on two
prostitutes in Tehran, she completed the documentary Four Wives - One
Man under difficult and dangerous conditions. The film which portrays
a polygamous family south of Shiraz, was smuggled out of Iran and
finally edited in Sweden. As of November 2008, Persson Sarvestani
recently finished the production of The Queen and I, a 90-minute
documentary in which the director's year-long, complex relationship
with the Iranian former Empress Farah Pahlavi is examined. The film
had its North American premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and
is under worldwide release in conjunction with the 30-year anniversary
of the Islamic Revolution in 2009.Persson Sarvestani has received
several awards for her films. The Last Days of Life received the
Swedish Cancer Foundation's (Cancerfondens) Journalist Prize in 2002.
The film Prostitution Behind The Veil, a controversial and painfully
revealing account of the lives of two prostitutes in Tehran, received
an International Emmy nomination, as well as the Golden Dragon at the
Kraków Film Festival, Best International News Documentary at the
TV-festival 2005 in Monte Carlo, as well as The Crystal Award
(Kristallen) by SVT (Swedish public broadcasting television) and the
Golden Scarab (Guldbaggen) by the Swedish Film Institute in
2005.Persson Sarvestani also shares TCO's (Tjänstemännens
Centralorganisation) 2005 Cultural Prize with the author Marjaneh
Bakhtiari.
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