DOCUMENTARIES

“Yad-e-Ayyam” (Remembering the Days)

I produced a documentary about Master Mohammad-Reza Shajarian “Yad-e-Ayyam” (Remembering the days). In this 54min documentary Master Shajarian worked with American musicians who played his created new Persian instruments. The mix of cultural and musical work of Iranian legendary Master with new-generation of American musical players is a unique combination that audiences have never seen before.

From Tehran to Jerusalem

A documentary about Iranian Jews in Israel

From Tehran to Tel Aviv; In Search Of Motherland

Radio Farda

The Execution of Madam Secretary

Winner of the 2023 Clarion Award for best Television Documentary Series (Local & Regional)

Finalist at the 2023 AIB Awards for Historical Documentary

On May 6th, 1980, coinciding with the Muslim Women's Day," which was named on the occasion of the perceived birth of the daughter of the Prophet of Islam, the daily newspaper Ette’la’at reported that for Farrokhru Parsay was sentenced to death. Two days later, it confirmed the execution.

Stateless

Best Documentary nominee for Venice TV Awards 2022

An Afghan photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2012, fled his country on the same day the Taliban took power in Kabul on August 15, 2021. This is the story of Massoud Hossaini and his journey from Kabul to the Netherlands and then to New Zealand. At the same time, audiences witness his early life in childhood when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s and Massoud and his family fled to Iran.

Khomeini - Dream of Destruction

The 60-minute documentary takes a historical look at events of the past 80 years between Iran and Israel by having eight academic experts on the two countries' relations answer various questions. Helping examine their relationship before the 1979 Iranian revolution, during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and after the revolution with the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the rise in tensions.

The Brightness of Tomorrow

When the sun set on August 20th 1968 and dawned the next day, the Warsaw Pact troops occupied all of Czechoslovakia with the exception of its capital, Prague. Their main goal was to crush a brief period of liberation in the communist country.