Minuet for A Disappearance

Growing up as a queer woman in a persecuted religious minority in Iran helped Maaman Rezaee develop a dark sense of humor which she later utilized for a career in filmmaking. She went from being a political prisoner at the age of 17 to becoming a political refugee in the US. After receiving her MFA, she pursued an academic career as a professor of film at the University of New Mexico before moving to LA. Through all of it, she wrote and directed stories that focus on issues of memory and belonging, some of which are funny too.​ Her feature script Ashes was a winner at Slamdance Screenwriting Competition and a finalist at Sundance Development Lab. Her short films have screened in Oscar-qualifying festivals such as LA Shorts, Blackstar, Santa Fe and deadCenter. Recently, she was a fellow at Writers Guild Foundations’ Access program and shadowed Steph Green (Emmy and Oscar-nominated Director) on the set of Duster, a new crime-thriller series created by JJ Abrams and LaToya Morgan.