Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi began working in documentary film in 1998. Hired by Gabriel Films to organize and direct THE FARM outreach program she was responsible for raising all of the money, organizing all of the town hall panel discussions, prison and high school screenings and creating the contact networks to continue the outreach. In late 1998 she began shooting for her own film 900 WOMEN at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel. Having been granted full access to film in the prison the film took 18 months to complete and is scheduled to be aired on A&E and show in American and European festivals. Ms. Khadivi is experienced in both grassroots media activism and working to bring educational documentaries into prisons throughout the south. Ms. Khadivi is originally from Iran.

900 Women
A film by Laleh Khadivi, 2000, 72 min., Color
“The Louisiana Correctional Institute is located in the swamps of southern Louisiana in the small town of St. Gabriel. Built in 1970 to house an incre...