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Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed

The Film Society’s Artist in Residence program brings an international filmmaker to San Francisco for a two-week residency, which features programming in each of the Film Society’s core areas—education, exhibition and filmmaker services—including a public screening, visits to Bay Area high school and college classrooms and opportunities to connect with local filmmakers. Visiting artists are selected based on their filmmaking experience, compelling body of work and desire to share their knowledge with emerging filmmakers and film students.

Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed presented his drama Qarantina, networked with local filmmakers and visited Bay Area high school and college classrooms.		   Who is Oday Rasheed?
Oday Rasheed is an Iraqi film director and writer. He studied at the Institute for Electrical Science as well as the Faculty of Applicable Arts in Baghdad, both of which he quit early to dedicate himself to cinema. For a while he worked as freelance writer, writing essays and film reviews in Baghdad. In 1998 he began to study film at the Faculty of Fine Arts, however, he soon quit his film studies due to the propagandistic nature of the school as well as the low standards of quality. Afterward and until the American invasion he wrote and directed numerous short films and was part of the artistic collective known as Najeen (the survivors). After the invasion he began making feature films. Rasheed's first feature film, a docufiction called Underexposure (2005), was shot on expired Kodak film that was bought back from looters in the early days of the American occupation. The film screened in festivals around the world. In 2009 Rasheed finished filming his second feature film, Qarantina. It premiered at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and also screened at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.


Qarantina
Directed by Oday Rasheed
Oday Rasheed gorgeously captures today’s Baghdad, a moody and colorful place in the grip of a brooding listlessness. Screening will be followed by in-depth Q&A with Rasheed, moderated by journalist Terry McCarthy. Read more...
Tuesday, April 3, 7:00 pm
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
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The Artist-in-Residence program is made possible
by a grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
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