Maaman Rezaee is a writer and director for six Independent short films. Her most recent film is titled “A Family of Too Many” which won the award for Best Short Screenplay at the Diamond Film Festival. She is currently working on her first feature script about an Iranian woman who seeks to find her birth parents.

Rezaee received her MFA in 2016 from Temple University and has been teaching since 2013. She currently teaches screenwriting at Rowan University.

Below, Rezaee talks about growing up in Iran and the challenges she faced with her gender and religion while in pursuit of her artistic passions.