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Emelie Mahdavian

• About Me

  Emelie is a filmmaker and Fulbright scholar whose work often looks at women’s experience. She produced, wrote, and edited Midnight Traveler, which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and is nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary. Emelie is nominated (with Su Kim) for Best Production at the Cinema Eye Honors and was awarded Best Editing at Salem Film Festival. Her experimental motion capture dance film Intangible Body, exploring censorship of women’s dance in Iran, was exhibited at museums and international festivals. Emelie studied filmmaking at London Film School, has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Utah.