Desiree Akhavan

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Desiree Akhavan (* 1984 in New York City ) is an Iranian -American film actress , director and screenwriter .

Life

Desiree Akhavan was born in New York City in 1984. Both parents immigrated to the United States during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. As a child, Akhavan lived with her family in New Jersey before moving to Rockland, New York . As a commuter, Akhavan attended Horace Mann School, a public school in the Bronx .

Akhavan began writing plays at the age of 10. She started acting at the age of 13. Akhavan studied film and theater at Smith College , a women's college in Northampton , Massachusetts . After graduating in 2007, she studied film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University , where she became a doctoral candidate. She spent a year abroad at Queen Mary University of London .

Akhavan made her first short film, Two Drink Minimum , while studying in London when she was a PhD student. In 2010 she wrote and directed the short film Nose Job . In the television series The Slope , first shown in 2011 , for which she wrote the script and also directed, she was also seen as an actress herself.

In 2014 Akhavan presented her film Appropriate Behavior at the Sundance Film Festival . Four years later, in January 2018 celebrated there also her film The Miseducation of Cameron Post Premiere, where he Jury Prize was awarded the US Dramatic Grand.

Channel 4 hired Akhavan to direct and script the sitcom The Bisexual . Akhavan describes himself as bisexual. Akhavan names the directors Woody Allen , Todd Solondz and Noah Baumbach as her role models, from whom she was inspired in her work .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2010: Nose Job (short film, also screenplay and direction)
  • 2010–2012: The Slope (TV series, 16 episodes, also screenplay and direction)
  • 2014: Appropriate Behavior (also direction)
  • 2016: The Circuit (TV movie)
  • 2016-2018: Flowers (TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2017: Creep 2
  • 2018: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Writer and Director)
  • 2018: The Bisexual (TV series, 6 episodes, also screenplay and direction)

Awards (selection)

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • 2015: Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award - Best First Screenplay (Appropriate Behavior)

Glasgow Film Festival

  • 2015: Nomination for the audience award (Appropriate Behavior)

Gotham Awards

  • 2015: Nomination for the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award (Appropriate Behavior)
  • 2015: Nomination for the audience award (Appropriate Behavior)

Sundance Film Festival

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced In: sundance.org, November 29, 2017.
  2. Program of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 In: sundance.org. Retrieved January 19, 2018 (PDF; 258 KB)
  3. Kate Erbland: 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners: 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' and 'Kailash' Win Grand Jury Prizes In: indiewire.com, January 27, 2018.