Ana Lily Amirpour
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Tribeca All Access® 2009
About
Ana Lily Amirpour is an English-born Iranian-American filmmaker. Her recent short film, Six and a Half, premiered at Slamdance and won the Golden Ace Award at the Las Vegas Int'l Film Festival/ Her feature-length script, The Stones, was a grand prizewinner of the Bluecat Screenwriting Competition and a finalist for the 2009 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and FIND Director's lab. She is in development on her second feature script, a dark comedy, Andronica 8 and in preproduction on her next short film, a look at teenage firls and self-image in Tehran, Pashmahloo (Furry One). Ana Lily is completing her MFA in Screenwriting at UCLA Film School.
The Stones
In modern day Tehran, class, tradition and love all violently collide as a young working class girl embarks on a forbidden love with a wealthy young man with fatal consequences.