What We Left Unfinished
TFI Suppport
TFI Network 2018
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WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED examines five unfinished fiction films from the Communist era in Afghanistan - when film was a weapon, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of political regimes merged with the stories told on-screen.
Mariam Ghani
Director, Producer
Director/producer Mariam Ghani's previous projects in Afghanistan have documented the spatial politics of the constitutional assembly, real-estate speculations in reconstructed Kabul, afterlives of former secret prisons, diasporic translators in theaters of war, and forgotten histories of Afghan modernists, artists and intellectuals. Her films & installations have been presented by IFFR, CPH:DOX, transmediale, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the National Gallery, Documenta, CCCB in Barcelona, Garage in Moscow, and the Liverpool, Sharjah and Gwangju Biennials, and are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Arab American National Museum, the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), and the Devi Art Foundation (India). She co-wrote with Ashraf Ghani and co-created the Afghan Films online archive with Pad.ma, and has won a number of awards and fellowships, most recently the Changemaker Storyteller Award from the Center for Constitutional Rights. WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is her first feature. mariamghani.com
Alysa Nahmias
Consulting Producer
Alysa Nahmias co-directed the doc feature UNFINISHED SPACES (2011 Independent Spirit Award) and produced Jennifer Brea's 2017 Sundance Jury Award-winning UNREST; Peter Ringbom's SHIELD AND SPEAR; and for PBS American Masters, AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERQ (2013 NYFF, Berlinale) by director/producer Nancy Buirski with advisor Martin Scorsese.
Ian Olds
Editor
Editor Ian Olds co-directed (with Garrett Scott) and edited the documentaries CUL-DE-SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY, OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND (2006 Independent Spirit Award, Full Frame Award), and FIXER: THE TAKING OF AJMAL NAQSHBANDI (2009 Emmy nomination, Amnesty Award nomination, Tribeca Jury Award for Best New Doc Director).