2007
March 2007
Monday 26 March 2007
Mon 26 Mar, 7 pm. 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19103. 215-446-3045. $10. Gershman Y Jewish Community Center - [email][events]
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian, 2005, USA, 63 minutes Special Guest: Tanaz Eshaghian Sexual purity, money and a mother's worries come together in this humorous guided tour of America's status-obsessed Iranian Jewish community. The film follows Tanaz, the narrator, a hip New Yorker whose Iranian family attempts to marry her off now that she's reached the ancient age of 25. Tanaz vacillates between soppy American ideas of romance and a more business-like Iranian approach, and in the end may be unable to execute either. Tanaz Eshaghian is a graduate of Brown University and has a Master's in Media Studies from New School University. Her film,"I Call Myself Persian," has been seen on numerous PBS stations. "From Babylon to Beverly Hills: The Exodus of Iran's Jews"