The new rules also include significant changes to the much-criticized international film category, expanding eligibility to ...

LEONIA, NJ – After years of training and climbing various mountains, Jafar Ismail signed up to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Mt. Everest, which stands at 29,032 feet. A resident of Leonia in ...

“I’m going to go to prison for a year, and I’ll come out with a new script.” Before his recent return to his homeland, iconic Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi understood the risks. He has spent decades ...

The final trailer of King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s biopic, ‘Michael’, has been released. The film, which stars Jaafar Jackson as his uncle, is set to release in theatres on April 24. In the new ...

He had been campaigning his Palme d’Or film, It Was Just An Accident, in the US and Europe. Panahi entered Iran on Tuesday by land via Turkey due to flight restrictions. Renowned Iranian filmmaker ...

Stephen Colbert had his funniest “I’m looking for a new gig after May” joke this week, and I don’t think it will ever be topped. It happened when he was talking to CNN national-security analyst Brett ...

Jafar Panahi reminded Jon Stewart to be grateful for his First Amendment rights, noting the comedian would likely be executed for the same jokes in Iran. “I was watching your show now,” the “It Was ...

He also discusses the production challenges of filming in Iran illegally and calls for solidarity with its people. Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the ...

Jafar Panahi’s dissident films. His films show how a regime’s wrongdoing can upend one’s sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life. Jafar Panahi, 2010. The photographs of Eugène Atget ...

Late in Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, comes a confrontation. An Iranian woman looks into the face of a sadistic prison official and taunts, “You think this country ...

Authorities in Iran have arrested the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Tehran. Mahmoudian co-wrote the film It Was Just an Accident with dissident director Jafar Panahi, and their film ...

"It Was Just an Accident" from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is nominated for the Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay Oscars. Jeffrey Brown met with Panahi to talk about his ...