Mr. Ahmad Kiarostami will discuss his experience promoting Iranian cinema in connection with the screening of the documentary My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns (Kamran Heidari, Iran, 2012, 65 min., Farsi with English subtitles).
The event is at UNC Cone Center, McKnight Hall, Thursday, April 4, 6:30 pm
Ahmad Kiarostami is the co-founder and CEO of Koantum, a new startup to teach science to elementary school students in the United States. Ahmad serves as a board member at The Roxie, the oldest operational movie theatre in North America. Before moving to the United States in 2001, he founded three companies in Iran, including Negah, the first multimedia and online production venue in Iran, where he published award-winning multimedia products in cinema and visual arts. In 2014, he started Docunight, an initiative to show Iranian documentaries, with monthly screenings in 20+ cities in North America. Ahmad is an Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders Fellow, and an Aspen Institute Fellow.
