Beschreibung:
Iranian-American director, writer, and producer, Ana Lily Amirpouris an auteur with confidence rooted in substance. Her thematicallydirect and color-imbued body of work embodies the mantra to make theweird real. Her feature-film debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Nightthe “Iranian vampire spaghetti western,” premiered at the Sundance FilmFestival in 2014 and was the opening selection for the New Directors/New Films series at MoMA in New York City. The film was awarded theRevelations Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and was given both theCarnet Jove Jury Award and the Citizen Kane Award for Best DirectorialRevelation from the Sitges Film Festival. At the 2014 Gotham AwardsAmirpour was honored with the Bingham Ray Award, given to an emergingfilmmaker with distinctive creative vision and stylistic adventurousnessthat stands apart from the mainstream.