Aryana Farshad The Persian-born filmmaker began her higher education in Paris, majoring in French Literature at La Sorbonne, prior to receiving her degree from Le Institut Des Hautes Etudes cinematographiques in Film Production and Editing. She started work as a documentary editor in France, continuing in Iran, where she received the ABU Award for editing THE EMIGRANT BIRDS and worked with major award-winning Iranian and European filmmakers, including the two times Oscar winner French director, Albert Lamorisse. She was also Associate Professor at the Institute of Film and Television Higher Studies in Tehran where she taught Montage de Film In 1978, Ms. Farshad moved to the United States and continued film studies at U.S.C. She joined the Editors Guild of America (I.A.T.S.E ) and worked in post-production at major studios, including MGM and Columbia Pictures, while developing her own documentary projects.MYSTIC IRAN: THE UNSEEN WORLD is Aryana Farshad's first full-length documentary.