Film Screening and Panel Discussion: NASRIN

ZOOM WEBINAR
OCTOBER 8, 2020 - 10:00AM TO 11:00AM

EVENT SPONSOR:
HAMID AND CHRISTINA MOGHADAM PROGRAM IN IRANIAN STUDIES

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NASRIN is an immersive portrait of attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of the world’s most prominent human rights activists and political prisoners. Written and directed by Jeff Kauffman, produced by Marcia Ross, and secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make it, the film also tells the story of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement.

Nasrin has long fought for the rights of women, children, LGBT prisoners, religious minorities, journalists and artists, and those facing the death penalty. She was arrested in June 2018 for representing women who were protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law, and she was sentenced to 38 years in prison, plus 148 lashes. From prison, she has continued to challenge the authorities. An Amnesty International petition calling for her release received over a million signatures from 200 countries.

PANELISTS:

Shirin Ebadi is a former Iranian lawyer and judge, and in 1975 the first woman to preside over a court, a human rights activist, and the founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women’s, children’s, and refugee rights. She has published 14 books, has won numerous prestigious awards and received 26 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

Jeff Kaufman produced, directed, and wrote the documentaries Every Act Of Life, The State of Marriage, Father Joseph, The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America, Brush With Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman, and Education Under Fire, and a number of short films. He also edited/designed a book based on the film Every Act of Life, contributed cartoons to The New Yorker, and illustrations to The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, wrote/illustrated several children’s books, and hosted daily radio shows in Vermont and Los Angeles.

Iranian activist Reza Khandan is the husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh. A designer and graphic artist, he has been imprisoned several times, most recently from September to December 2018 after he posted on Facebook about human rights violations in Iran. He was charged with acting against Iran’s national security and supporting “anti-hijab” action and still faces a six-year prison sentence.

Abbas Milani is the director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has written numerous books including The Shah (2011), Eminent Persians, Volume I & II (2008), Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran in English (2004), edited and wrote the introduction for A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives (2019) and in Farsi, with Maryam Mirzadeh, Saadi and Humanism (2020).

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