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The Iran Job

USA 93 min.

Tuesday, October 16, at 6:30 p.m.
Ashe Cultural Arts Center
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE
FREE screening

Director, Writer, Cinematographer
Till Schauder
Producers
Sara Nodjoumi & Till Schauder
Editor
David Teague
Director Bio
Till got his start in Germany where he wrote and directed the award winning films STRONG SHIT, and CITY BOMBER. After earning a government grant for the arts he made his U.S. debut with the romantic comedy SANTA SMOKES which won several international awards, among them Best Director at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award. DUKE'S HOUSE, about Duke Ellington's Harlem home premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Through his company Partner Pictures Till writes, directs, shoots and produces for television and film. He has a side career in acting where he is occasionally cast in shows like HBO’s Mildred Pierce or commercials like a 2008 national American Express campaign. Till is a graduate of the University of Television and Film, Munich. He teaches film classes at NYU and has been a guest lecturer at several other campuses, and a panelist at various film festivals.

  • The Iran Job Trailer

Synopsis

THE IRAN JOB follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran.

With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran.

Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iranian women. Thanks to these women, his apartment turns into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles.

Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.

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