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Heidi Saman

Heidi Saman was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces to Watch. Her first feature film, Namour, was acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, and won the LA Muse Jury Award at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2008, Saman’s short film The Maid (il Shaghala) premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. She is a 2016-2018 Pew Fellow in the Arts and she recently directed an episode of OWN's Queen Sugar. Heidi is developing her second feature film The Armenian Club with Sundance Institute's Film Two Initiative. She's currently a producer for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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Still from the film "The Farewell" is an image taken from the inside of an MRI machine. A circle in the center of the frame shows an elderly woman in a blue medical gown, sitting and preparing to enter the machine. A hand can be seen holding on to her wrist as she looks, presumably at a medical professional, off screen.

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The Sound of Secrets: an interview with Lulu Wang

by Heidi Saman