Pacific Film Archives Special event

A Special Event
>Wednesday, October 26^th , 2005
>3 p.m. promptly
>Pacific Film Archives
>
>Our special guest, Mahvash Sheikholeslami will be screening her short documentary */MURDER OR
>MURDERED/*, on October 26th , 2005 at 3 pm in the Pacific Film Archives. A graduate of the London
>Film School, Sheikholeslami is an award-winning filmmaker whose work advocates for the rights of
>women. In the daring documentary */MURDER OR MURDERED/*, award-winning director Sheikholeslami enters an Iranian prison to create a portrait of six women on death row for the crime of killing their husbands. In low-key but profoundly revealing interviews, bitter stories of socially
sanctioned enslavement and abuse reveal the women as sad victims of harsh tradition. In Persian
with English subtitles. DV-CAM video. (BS)

Director Mahvash Sheikholeslami will be present for audience discussion following the screening.