ABOUT SAM JAVADI
​Meysam “Sam” Javadi is an Iranian film and theater director based for the last three years in Tajikistan. He was Video Director for Mamak Khadem’s Whispers of Spring, which premiered at the LACMA, and he made music videos for many prominent Tajik musicians. He was the Director of Photography for the feature documentary After the Curtain, which premiered at Lincoln Center in February 2016. He is the founder of the theater group Bisarparastan, whose production Journalist, written and directed by Sam, went on an 11-city tour of Tajikistan and then to the 2016 Rumi Festival in Norway. Sam is also an accomplished dancer, musician, and actor. He brings this sensitivity to performance to his camera style. Sam speaks Persian, Turkish, and English.
INTERVIEWS & PRESS
“Sam Javadi,” Radio Zamaneh interview, Dec 21, 2015
“Newgahe Now Festival: Journalist in Negahe Now,” Faraj, May 18, 2015
“Magic Cinema” Istiklol Magazine, Feb 2015
“Javadi: Every Revolution of Islam Falls on the Heads of Women,” Faraj, Dec 31, 2014
“Impasse: An Iranian Film about Tajik Children,” by Sarbinozi Ruholloh, Radio Ozodi, October 17, 2014
“Theater in this Country is Dying!” Faraj, August 29, 2014
“First Street Theater in Dushanbe, Tajikistan,” BBC Persian, May 14, 2014