Naghmeh shirkhan biography of barack
Naghmeh shirkhan biography of barack
Interview With “Maki” filmmaker Naghmeh Shirkhan!.
VIFF 2010: Director Naghmeh Shirkhan drew upon her immigrant past for The Neighbor
When Naghmeh Shirkhan set out to make her first feature film, The Neighbor, she chose to embark on a journey into her own past as a young immigrant from Iran.
Shirkhan spoke with the Georgia Straight on the phone from Toronto about why memories of her childhood were a vivid source of inspiration for the film.
“One of the reasons why I’m drawn to film is because it’s a visual medium, and my memories of my childhood from Iran are very much intact,” she said.
“I think it’s the trauma of being uprooted and having to fend for myself that I’ve never been able to forget.”
When she was five, Shirkhan’s family left Iran for Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly after the move, her father was forced to return to Iran during the 1979 Revolution, leaving his wife and two young children to fend for themselves.
She explains that with her mother working full-time, she learned to become very independent at a young a