We'd like to welcome award-winning Iranian woman film-maker Rakhashan Bani-E'temad to WIFTNZ. Rakhashan is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered as Iran's premier female director, her films have been praised at international festivals as well as being remarkably popular with Iranian critics and audiences. Social themes are dominant in her work and women play the leading role in most of her films. She made an international breakthrough with The Blue-Veiled which, was awarded the Bronze Leopard in the 48th Locarno Film Festival in 1995. She has since gone on to win other awards and is a jury member of several local and international film festivals.
We hope to be able to welcome Rakhashan to Aotearoa/New Zealand in person sometime in 2011.