Filmmakers and Producers

Born in Tehran and currently based in Vienna, Tara Najd Ahmadi is a non-fiction filmmaker and scholar. Her films focus on creating a panorama of marginalized narratives that can be gleaned through unofficial oral histories. In that space, she is interested in the ways in which subjects resist against power structures and deal with the consequences. Retrospectives of her work has been shown in various places including Depot (Kunst und Diskussion) in Vienna, and the Academic Film Center in Belgrade. Her works have been shown in various film festivals and art venues including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Burchfield Penney Art Museum. In 2019 she received her doctorate degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (NY), where she investigated the notions of “incomplete and unfinished” in art projects and films that were made during revolutionary times. Najd Ahmadi is also the recipient of the George Eastman Museum graduate fellowship (2016-2018), the New York State Council on the Arts Media Arts Assistance Fund (2017), Flaherty Film Seminar fellowship (2017) and Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (2018).

Born in Tehran and currently based in Vienna, Tara Najd Ahmadi is a non-fiction filmmaker and scholar. Her films focus on creating a panorama of marginalized narratives that can be gleaned through unofficial oral histories. In that space, she is interested in the ways in which subjects resist against power structures and deal with the consequences. Retrospectives of her work has been shown in various places including Depot (Kunst und Diskussion) in Vienna, and the Academic Film Center in Belgrade. Her works have been shown in various film festivals and art venues including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Burchfield Penney Art Museum. In 2019 she received her doctorate degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (NY), where she investigated the notions of “incomplete and unfinished” in art projects and films that were made during revolutionary times. Najd Ahmadi is also the recipient of the George Eastman Museum graduate fellowship (2016-2018), the New York State Council on the Arts Media Arts Assistance Fund (2017), Flaherty Film Seminar fellowship (2017) and Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (2018).