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  Subject:   World Famous Film Director on Campus!!!!

  Sponsor:   Stanford Film Society & Persian Student Association

  Speaker:   Abbas Kiaorstami, Jamseed Akrami, Jonathon Rosenbaum, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

  Date:   Thursday, May 4, 2000

  Time:   7pm - 9pm

  Location:   Annenberg Auditorium [look for it in a campus map]

  Event URL:   http://www.stanford.edu/group/psa/kiarostami

  Costs:   Free with Stanford ID $10 for General Public

  Contact:   dara@psych.stanford.edu

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The Persian Student Association & The Stanford Film Society present:

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       An open forum discussion with renowned film director 

                         ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

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"Americans don't know it yet, but we are living in the age of Kiarostami,"
                                - Phillip Lopate,  writer,  Film Comment

"One of the top two filmmakers of the decade!!!"
						- Village Voice International Critic's Poll

Thursday, May 4, 2000, 7PM-9PM 
Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium
Tickets: free with Stanford ID, $10 without. 

With panelists: 

* Jamsheed Akrami, film professor at William Paterson University, New York
* Jonathon Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader
* Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, film professor at Columbia College, Chicago

The Persian Student Association (PSA) at Stanford University welcomes
renowned Iranian film director, Abbas Kiarostami, to the university for an
open discussion with the Stanford community about his work and Iranian
cinema in general.

Kiarostami is perhaps best known for his film, Taste of Cherry, which won
the top prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He is paying a special
visit to the Bay Area on April 30th to accept the Akira Kurosawa Lifetime
Achievement Award in directing in this year's San Francisco International
Film Festival (SFIFF). 

The event at Annenberg Auditorium is intended to be an interactive open
discussion between Kiarostami and the Stanford community. A panel of three
experts in Iranian film (listed above) will lead the discussion after the
screening of a short montage of Kiarostami's works by Jamsheed Akrami. 

Kiarostami's film, Traveller, will be shown at the Park Theater in
Menlo Park one day prior to this event on May 3rd at 7PM. This showing is
part of SFIFF's retrospective of Kiarostami's works at this year's
festival (see film schedule below).

For filmography, photos, articles, and interviews, see:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/psa/kiarostami

This event is partially sponsored by Stanford's Bechtel International
Center and the Arts Council Silicon Valley.

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The SF Intl. Film Festival's retrospective of Kiarostami's films:

Close-Up (100 minutes) -- 4/22 Kabuki Theater (SF )7:15PM 
Traveller (72 minutes) -- 4/23 Kabuki Theater 4:00PM
Traveller (72 minutes) -- 4/27 Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) 7:00PM 
Where Is the Friend's Home? (90 minutes) -- 4/29 Kabuki Theater 1:00PM 

Wind Will Carry Us (118 minutes) -- 4/30 Kabuki Theater 3:30PM
** Kurosawa Award Presentation **

And Life Goes On... (91 minutes) -- 5/2  Kabuki Theater 9:45PM
Traveller (72 minutes) -- 5/3  Park Theater (Menlo Park) 7:00PM

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Persian Student Association at Stanford University
P. O. Box 19734, Stanford, CA 94309
Phone: (650) 853-1763
Email: psa-admin@lists.stanford.edu 
Web: http://psa.stanford.edu
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 Event history: Submitted by gatech on 21-Apr-2000;

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