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She continued graduate acting and screenwriting studies at Academy of Art University and earned an Master of Business Administration from Chapman University, emphasizing in Film Production.
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Fereshta Kazemi
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Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979, Kazemi moved to the United States. with her family in 1981. She was raised in New York and the California Bay Area. Kazemi also earned a degree in Philosophy & Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Davis.
In 2014, Kazemi was the main character in Targeting, a United States. psychological thriller feature film playing a young Afghan immigrant wife in the United States. Kazemi.
In this film she performed the first on screen kiss for an Afghan actress and was called a "trailblazer" by National Broadcasting Company. Kazemi"s work was photographed in a series by pulitzer prize winning photographer Carolyn Cole while in Afghanistan. In 2013, Fereshta played the leading role in The Icy Sun, a film about rape in Afghanistan.
National Broadcasting Company News said her film "breaks new ground for Afghanistan, where victims of rape can be forced to marry their attackers to preserve their families" honor". Kazemi is working on a documentary about Acting in Afghanistan.
In 2013, she was awarded a for her role in "The Icy Sun" at the "2nd Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival".
Achievements
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After high school, Kazemi won an acting and academic scholarship to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where she studied acting and writing. In 2009, Kazemi held a lead role in Heal, a film about conflict in Afghanistan which has won twenty international and domestic film festival awards, including winner of the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Category at Comic Con International Film Festival (2011), winner of the Frank D. Capra award (2011), and the Humanitarian Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival (2011).
