MY LIFE IS WIND (A LETTER)
DELIVERY 2024 | DRAMA | USA, SWEDEN | ENGLISH, ARABIC
Logline
MY LIFE IS WIND is the story of Myriam’s first weeks as a refugee in an alien land told in the form of an intimate letter.
Cast
Sara Hosseini Kolkou
Hiba Ghrir
Zahia Salloum
Melinda Myers
Orion Orrico
Najibullah Habib
David Fetzer
Mareen Morad
José Gomez Velazquez
Crew
Scriptwriter and director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Producer: Javad Safari
Co-Producer: Ignacio Manrique & Ben Dulavitch
Director of Photography: Philip Rabalais & Auden Lincoln Vogel
Edit: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Sound Recording, Design & Mix: John Hennessey Baker
Production Design: Ignacio Manrique & Gabriel Manrique
Second Unit Cinematography: Raymond Salloum
Director’s Biography
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh is an Iranian filmmaker based in the United States. She got her BA from the Art University of Tehran, and studied at Abbas Kiarostami’s workshops. In Iran, she directed the short film When the Kid was a Kid (2011) and co- wrote the feature Mourning (2011). Anahita got her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her thesis short film Needle (2013) won the Cinéfondation first prize at Cannes Film Festival from a jury presided by Jane Campion. Anahita’s feature debut They (2017) premiered at the official selection of Cannes Film Festival. She is a professor and the head of the Screenwriting program at the University of Iowa.
Filmography
MY LIFE IS A WIND (a letter) (short film) – Director, screenwriter and editor.
Selected by Locarno Film Festival.
They – 2017 – Director and screenwriter.
Selected by Cannes Film Festival, BFI Flare, Chicago International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Deauville American Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival.
What Remains (short film) – 2016 – Director and screenwriter.
Needle (short film) – 2013 – Director and screenwriter.
Selected by Cannes Film Festival (Winner 1st Prize Cinefondation Award), Chicago International Film Festival (Winner Silver Hugo), Melbourne International Film Festival, Criterion Channel, Dazed Digital.
When the Kid Was a Kid (short film) – 2011 – Director and screenwriter.
Selected by Slamdance Film Festival, Sardinia Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Festival of Iranian Cinema (Khaneh Cinema).
Mourning – 2011 – Screenwriter.
Selected by Busan International Film Festival, Deauville Asian Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
