Siamak Ghahremani
Los Angeles, United States
Festival Co-Founder & Director Siamak Ghahremani’s story intertwined with Iranian culture and cinema at a deeply personal level. At the impressionable age of 5, Siamak experienced the far reaching impacts of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Just a boy of 11-years-old, he narrowly avoiding gunfire when his family was caught by authorities trying to leave Iran. Imprisoned for weeks they escaped to Pakistan in 1986, but not without the turmoil taking a toll on Siamak's mother and she shortly...