International Premiere
An Iranian-American actor auditions for a supporting role in a major film.
Elee Kademi, Nancy Kimball, Jake Fallon, Courtney Renee Stallings, Lee Emmerich, Charlotte Soehner
USA
2025
In English and Persian with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Aaron Champagne, Armon Mahdavi, Nancy Kimball, Gurv Sidhu
Screenwriter
Armon Mahdavi
Cinematography
Aaron Champagne
Editor
Armon Mahdavi
Production Design
Diana Penglase
Original Music
Zach “Monk” Goggans
Armon Mahdavi
Armon Mahdavi is a writer and filmmaker from San Francisco, now living in New York. His films have played at venues like the Museum of the Moving Image, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn. His short stories have been published in Gulf Coast, Triangle House Review, and others. He is currently a Hawthornden fellow at Brooklyn College, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in fiction.
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