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Early life

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh was born in 1989 in Tehran, Iran.

Rise to Success

She got her BFA in cinema from Tehran University of Art and her MFA in studio arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Anahita has studied with Abbas Kiarostami and is influenced by his cinematic style. In 2011 she started to work on trilogy of short films with the children as main characters. When the Kid was a Kid (2011, Iran) and Needle (2013, US) are the first two finished pieces.

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Needle was premiered in Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation selection and won the Premier Prix. Anahita was selected as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema in 2013 by the Filmmaker Magazine. She is also the co-writer of the acclaimed feature film, Mourning (2011).

Childhood and parenthood, family theater, and exploring notions of growth and gender identity are the main themes of her work.

Career

She became an Iranian filmmaker based in Chicago. Childhood, family theater, notions of growth a