Notebook
Making of the Venice Walk, Part 3
If you’ve ever walked into a pitch-dark house, only to have blinding lights turned on to a room full of friends who scream, “SURPRISE!!!”… That is the best way I can described my extreme shock and speechlessness of my siren screeching ambulance ride pitching me left and right as it ... Full story
THE MAKING OF THE VENICE WALK, Part 2
“Don’t follow trends, start trends” was the lesson Frank Capra instilled upon us all when he accepted the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982. While other filmmakers of his day were unspooling mindless musicals, burlesque comedy and gangland shoot em’ ... Full story
The Making of the Venice Walk, part 1
I was having the most fun I ever had with my clothes on. Finally I had created a working environment where I was producing a project that I had written, was directing and also performing in. It parallel the ... Full story
Letters Without Borders, A Letter From Prague
Last week I saw "Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále", “I Served The King of England“ in a film club in the heart of Prague. The film is directed by JiÅ™í Menzel and the impression that it evoked in me was a ... Full story
I met Count Dracula..
I started working as a construction worker at the age of six. I was working along with ten other workers building a housing project in a Tehran suburb. My life was limited to carry red bricks for other workers; I ... Full story
Thus spake Zartosht Soltani
NY-based Animator and Art Director In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York where he is now working as art director and illustrator for an ... Full story
one of the first in Film History
When people talk about film, the first word that comes to mind it’s Hollywood. But believe it or not, before the “H Town”, other cities in countries around the world where not just pioneering but taking this new media to ... Full story
Hitchcock, Pepperoni Pizza and Strawberry Ice Cream
Javad is dead. He passionately loved Hitchcock, Mango and strawberry ice cream. Javad lived his abridged life through other people. This should explain his unending appetite for watching movies and counting other people's money. He was a bank clerk, an ... Full story
I met Orson Welles
“Trust Me!” he roared. I glanced briefly down to check my footing. I had driven the entire day through sweltering desert heat with several large, full gas canisters filled to the brim jostling in the back of my little Citroen ... Full story
