Soudabeh Moradian (

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:سودابه مرادیان) is an Iranian-American independent filmmaker. A number of her movies have been in official selection of various international film festivals and many of them won awards. She has made many documentary series about Iranian

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, and some independent documentaries about "war and madness" such as "Doomsday Machine"," Story Of The Land On Ashes","Mahin", "Voices Against Them" and some other narrative and docufiction films and series like "The Leader of Caravan","My Name Is Tomorrow" and "Les Chroniques d'iran". She made her first full feature-length narrative called

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in 2014 in Los Angeles and Seattle starring

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and Coby Ryan McLaughlin. The subjects of her movies are mainly based on social issues, women and psychological impacts of war. She's also been teaching at film schools and colleges such as the Art Institute of California, College of the Canyons, Columbia College Hollywood, etc. She is currently a film professor at

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, New Yor

Life

She was born in

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and started her career in directing,

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and

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in 1996 . She graduated from

Tehran University of Art Iran University of Art (, ''Daneshgah-e Honar-e Iran'') (former "Tehran University of Art and formally Art Academic Complex (1979-1991)), is the largest art university in Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and al ...

with a BFA in

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in 1996 and got an MFA degree in Film and Video from

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in 2015. She immigrated to the United States in 2009 and has been working as a screenwriter, director, editor and film professor in California and New York.

Films

* The Mermaid- Feature - 2024 : Writing, Directing and Editing * My Blue Sky- Documentary - 2024 : Directing and Editing *

- Feature - 2017 : Writing and Directing : -2020 Reframe Stamp Recipientrecipient"
/ref> : -Won the best feature at Culver City Film Festival - Los Angeles : -Nominated for the best feature, best director and best actress at California Women's Film Festival - Los Angeles * I Was Born Yesterday - Documentary - 2014 : Directing and Editing : -Won the best documentary at Barcelona Planet Film Festival (Spain), European Film Festival (Russia), Spotlight Documentary Film Award (USA) : - Official selection of: Los Angeles CineFest (USA), Sydney World Film festival (Australia), Roma Cinemadoc (Italy), Barcelona Planet film festival (Spain), Toronto film week (Canada), Lisbon International film festival (Portugal), Venice film week, Silent Movie World film festival (Ukraine) * Burnt City - Experimental Documentary - 2012 : Directing and Editing * With Iranian - Documentary series - 2010 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing

Documentary series for

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- 2009
Doomsday Machine
(Machine Rooze Ghiamat) – Documentary - 2006~2009 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing : - Official Selection of UKIFF Film Festival (London -2010) : -Nominated in DOCSDF international Film Festival (Mexico-2009) : -Official Selection of Document 7-international human rights film festival (Scotland-2009) : -"a prize of honor"in Parivin Etesami Film Festival (Iran-2009) * Outspoken : Los Angeles - Documentary - 2007 : Associate producer * Voices Against Them - Documentary - 2007 : Producer, Co-Director and Editor * The women of village (series 2)- documentary - 2002~2003 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing * My name is tomorrow- fiction series - 2003 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing * The savage sunflowers- feature - 2003 : Editing * Story of the land on ashes (Gheseye khake soukhte)- documentary - 2001 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing : - Official Selection of 20th

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- Iran, 18th international Short Film Festival- Iran and third week of FOROUGH Film- Iran * Green and being in love- documentary series - 2001 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing * Nexus – documentary series - 2000 : Screen writing and Directing * MAHIN – Documentary - 1999 : Screen writing and Directing : - Achieved the honorary Diploma in KISH Documentary Film Festival-Iran : - Official Selection of Iranian films in North America and Achieved the honorary Diploma in

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: - Official Selection of festivals:

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)... * Rain for surviving – documentary series - 1997 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing * The women of village (series 1) – documentary series - 1997 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing * Discovering Iran – Documentary parts of the Discovering Iran CD. - 1997 : Directing and Editing * The leader of Caravan (Ghafeleh Salar)-

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- 1996 : Screen writing, Directing and Editing : - Official Selection of Madrid Film Festival

Other activities

* Panelist for 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows (New York Foundation for the Arts

* Jury member for a number of film festivals such as 13t
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
and Syracuse International Film Festival 2021 * Vice President of Iranian documentary filmmakers associatio
IRDFA
(2008–2009) * Executive manager of the First workshop on documentary film making b
IRDFA
(Iranian documentary filmmakers association) an
DEFC
(documentary and experimental film center) in Tehran, Iran * Columnist and Film critic in newspapers and artistic foundations. * Member of

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(IDA),

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an
IRDFA

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moradian, Soudabeh 1972 births Iranian documentary filmmakers Iranian film directors Iranian film editors Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian contemporary artists Iranian women film directors Living people Women film editors Women documentary filmmakers Tehran University of Art alumni