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UNIFEM/USNC’s Monthly Film Screening: The Glass House
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
August 15, 2010
Artist’s Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Film screening and Panel Discussion, with Representatives from Amnesty International USA and NorCal4Iran, on Women's Rights in Iran.

Directed by Hamid Rahmanian, Glass House is a production of Fictionville Studio.

The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on.  The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran.  Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before.  With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.

the DVD is available for sale at www.fictionvillestudio.com that 20% of the profits go towards Omid e Mehr (www.omid-e-mehr.org)

This event is co-sponsored by USNC Bay Area Chapter for UNIFEM, Amnesty International USA, and NorCal4Iran.