Farangis Siahpour is an independent filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist and an enthusiastic instructor of Persian language and culture. Farangis has worked as a professional linguist in a variety of fields for the last 5 years in California. As a leading media analyst in the Persian language world, she anchored, wrote and produced daily television programs that air worldwide.
She was born and raised in Iran. For her first Master’s degree, she made the short film, The Day After Tomorrow, which was chosen as the best student film about discrimination and suppression of women in Iran at Tehran University. Her next short, Situation, was made for her second master’s degree, at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts in association with USC Film School, and was credited as being an outstanding short film about gender discrimination in the Middle East.
Farangis’s impressions of society and finding her place in the world regardless of geographical and ideological boundaries led her to pen a collection of short stories, It Passes You By. She is an independent scholar and her works have been published in Academia.edu.
Her screenplays led to an invitation to the International Writing Program in Iowa in 2010, where, along with thirty-two artists worldwide, she shared her films and her vision with university students across America.
Her next work, From Iran with Love, was performed at the Portland Stage Company. She has worked with Sobini’s film company and Mountain Man Entertainment company. Her next feature script, Strange Gathering, was staged in Global Express Festival. Her present screenplay, Perfect Americans was chosen as a quarter-finalist for Final Draft’s highly competitive Big Break screenwriting competition. The script is in pre-production now.
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