With Brad Bird, Saul Zaentz...

With Brad Bird [Academy Award Winner of Pixar Pictures: Finding Nemo, Toy Story…], Saul Zaentz [producer of: Amadeus, The English Patient, One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest…], Lloyd A. Silverman [producer of: Snow Falling on Cedars, Shattered Image…], the panelist at the Tiburon International Film Festival, and Siamak Shafa, TIFF Associate Director.
Photo © Dave Brown

With George Stevens Jr.

With George Stevens Jr., director of George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey at the Tiburon international Film Festival. Photo © Dave Brown

With 'Paul Mazursky'

With Paul Mazursky, the great American director of such films as: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills... Photo © Elliot Karlan

With 'Malcolm McDowell'

With Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, If..., O' Lucky Man!...) at the 4th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival in Tiburon, California. Photo © Elliot Karlan

With 'Humberto Solás'

With Humberto Solás, the great Cuban director of such films as: Lucía, El Siglo de las luces, Amada..., in Cuba.

With 'Lina Wertmüller'

With Lina Wertmüller, the great Italian director of such films as: Severn Beauties, Seduction of Mimi, Swept Away..., in San Francisco.

First Tiburon International Film Festival

First Tiburon International Film Festival, Payam Ashena, 1381/March 2002, Issue No. 158.

A Film Critic

Richard Corlis, Time magazine film critic, once in describing the film critics said: "In the movie business, those who can, do. Those who can't, critique. And those who can't critique, critique the critics."

"... critics have a larger utility: to put films in context, to of­fer an informed perspective, to educate, outrage, and entertain."

Caravans کاروانها

http://news.gooya.com/ashena/archives/2008/02/067080.php

کاروانها' شنبه 20 بهمن 1386' Review of 'Caravans' on GooyaNews.

Iranian Filmmakers Move Out of Iran!


Iranian Filmmakers Move Out of Iran! سینماگران ایرانی به خارج می روند Payam Ashena, October 2007.

Iranian Films @ Tiburon International Film Festival

Iranian Films @ Tiburon International Film Festival, Pezhvak, March 2008, Page 43.

Iranian Films @ Tiburon International Film Festival

Iranian Films @ Tiburon International Film Festival, Payam Ashena, February 2008.

Review of 'Caravans' & 'The Kingdom'

Review of 'Caravans' & 'The Kingdom', Pezhvak Monthly, Issue 199, Page 26, January 2008.

'Voice of America' Interview

Persian Primetime lineup 02/01/2008
Today's Woman hosts Saeed Shafa, Founder and Executive Director of the Tiburon (CA) International Film Festival to discuss independent and Iranian cinema.

http://www.voanews.com/persian/archive/2008-01/2008-01-02-voa27.cfm?CFID=266047731&CFTOKEN=40354877

OFFSIDE

Review of Jafar Panahi's 'Offside', Payam Ashena, December 2007.

The Kingdom

Review of 'The Kingdom', Payam Ashena, November 2007.

Islamic Filmmakers Are Coming!

Islamic Filmmakers Are Coming!, Payam Ashena, October 2007, Page 44.

Iranian Filmmakers Move Out of Iran!

Iranian Filmmakers Move Out of Iran!, Payam Ashena, September 2007, Page 52.

Paul Mazursky

Jan Wahl (Film Critic), Paul Mazursky (the great American director of such films as Down and Out in Beverly Hills...), Siamak Shafa (Associate Director) and Saeed Shafa sharing a laugh at Paul Mazursky's joke, after a press conference and tribute to Mazursky at the 2006 Tiburon International Film Festival.
Photo: Brad Fox © TIFF

Mark Rydell

Mark Rydell, Academy Award-nominated director of such great films as Cinderella Liberty, On Golden Pond... was at the 2007 Tiburon International Film Festival for a tribute in his honor. TIFF showed his latest film, Even Money.

Walter Cronkite

" I always thought Walter Cronkite was one the few great journalist/broadcasters of all time, and I still believe that. No one has ever come closer or will ever to what Walter Cronkite did for the news media.
I got his autograph while in college studying journalism, before switching to film."

Death of Two Giants: Antonioni & Bergman

Death of Two Giants: Antonioni & Bergman, Pezhvak Publication, No. 195, September 2007, Page 37.