Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri

Persheng Vaziri is an independent documentary filmmaker, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She came to the US to continue her studies right before the revolution in Iran started. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. and Masters of Arts in Cinema Studies from New York University and has worked in documentary films in Boston, New York and Tehran. She has worked for a number of American and international companies on programs about the Middle East and Iran. Her most recent work is for Deep Dish TV in New York on a series about the war in Iraq. She worked for 5 years in Iran for Internews Network, an international media company that promotes dialogue through media programs between societies in conflict. She co-produced a PBS project for Internews titled Vis a Vis: Beyond the Veil, a satellite dialogue program between an Iranian school teacher and her counterpart in Maryland. She also produced Adventure Divas, Iran episode, about Iranian women for PBS in 2000.

Persheng ahs produced and directed several personal documentary films about Iran: Journal from Tehran, 1986 is a memoir of war days in Tehran, a prize winner which screened at Independent Focus series of PBS. Far from Iran, is a commissioned work by New England Foundation for the Arts; A Place Called Home, 1998, is about the filmmaker’s decision to leave the US and live in Iran. It is distributed by Women Make Movies, and screened at major art centers and museums, such as the Museum of Natural History in New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Chicago Film Institute, Pacific Film Archives of San Franciso and others; her most recent work is, Women Like Us, completed in January, 2002, is a video portrait of five ordinary women in today’s Iran. She lives and works in New York and Tehran. (03/04)

A Place Called Home
A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri, 1998, 30 min., Color
Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri grew up in pre-Revolution Tehran daydreaming about an ideal life in the West. Nineteen years later, after living and working ...

Women Like Us
A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri, 2002, 60 min., Color
Filmmaker Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri returns to Iran after 20 years as an expatriate to present this intimate and revealing portrait of five ordinary Iran...