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 Elika Rezaee is an international award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She studied graphic design in Tehran. Elika learned her editing and directing skills under the most significant filmmakers in Iran. During this time she became affiliated with an experimental filmmaking wave in Iran. After immigrating to the US, she attended the American Film Institute where she graduated with an MFA in film editing in2015. Her body of work as a director explores themes such as human relations/ connections and war. With her unique vision, her objectives as a filmmaker are to create empathy and show beauty through the eyes of her characters. Influenced by her formal training and almost 2 decades of working professionally as an editor, she implements her editorial standards in both style and quality as a storyteller. Elika partially attributes her success as an editor and filmmaker to her Iranian upbringing; her cultural differences have taught her work ethic and patience which led her to be a good creative collaborator. Elika's most recent project is a series of experimental short films combined into a compelling feature "III Women". The focus of the project is three women who are separated by culture, race, and nationality but linked by their common experience of loneliness. Through our similarities and differences, we are all separated yet universally joined.Elika Rezaee is an International Award-Winning Filmmaker, Editor, and Director. She is a native of Iran and left home to pursue her dreams in Western Cinema and rather successfully ended up studying at one of the most prestigious schools in North America. Elika is a graduate of The American Film Institute in 2015 and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Editing with distinction. She is diligent and prolific. Bringing rich Iranian culture and heritage with her, she produces a diverse landscape of artistic flavors and colors to the industry. She has worked with multiple legendary and notable filmmakers including, but not limited to: Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi.Elika received The Best Short Film Award in 2011 for "The Eyes" (Writer & Director) with Parvin Etesami. In the FIKE - ��vora International Short Film Festival, she received the Best Film Award for "Once Again Memories I Loved"(Writer & Director). With yet another successful project, "When We Pass by Each Other" (Writer & Director), she was nominated for Best Short-Drama in the Fribourg Film Festival.Some of her other notable credits include the following: "La Sandinista" (Editor) won the Jury Prize for SXSW Chicken & Egg Award, S?o Paulo International Film Festival Winner - Audience Award & New Directors Competition, Washington DC Film Festival Winner - Justice Matters Award. "Jews Step Forward" (Editor & Director) Best Human Rights, War & Peace Documentary Feature Award Winner Award of Merit, Best Documentary Feature from Mexico International Film Festival. "Chasing The Rain"(Editor), a Dramedy Feature Film streamed on Amazon. "Conducting The Revolution" and "Lot 448" (Editor) which are both collaborative works of Tribeca & Bvlgari. "Fereshteh", one of her most recent works as both writer and director, is currently in post-production and will soon be ready for its premiere and international release. "Balcony" won the ISF National Film Grant in narrative category for an outstanding short film script and will be in production next fall.
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Elika Rezaee is an international award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She studied graphic design in Tehran. Elika learned her editing and directing skills under the most significant filmmakers in Iran. During this time she became affiliated with an experimental filmmaking wave in Iran. After immigrating to the US, she attended the American Film Institute where she graduated with an MFA in film editing in2015. Her body of work as a director explores themes such as human relations/ connections and war. With her unique vision, her objectives as a filmmaker are to create empathy and show beauty through the eyes of her characters. Influenced by her formal training and almost 2 decades of working professionally as an editor, she implements her editorial standards in both style and quality as a storyteller. Elika partially attributes her success as an editor and filmmaker to her Iranian upbringing; her cultural differences have taught her work ethic and patience which led her to be a good creative collaborator. Elika's most recent project is a series of experimental short films combined into a compelling feature "III Women". The focus of the project is three women who are separated by culture, race, and nationality but linked by their common experience of loneliness. Through our similarities and differences, we are all separated yet universally joined.
Elika Rezaee is an International Award-Winning Filmmaker, Editor, and Director. She is a native of Iran and left home to pursue her dreams in Western Cinema and rather successfully ended up studying at one of the most prestigious schools in North America. Elika is a graduate of The American Film Institute in 2015 and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Editing with distinction. She is diligent and prolific. Bringing rich Iranian culture and heritage with her, she produces a diverse landscape of artistic flavors and colors to the industry. She has worked with multiple legendary and notable filmmakers including, but not limited to: Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi.Elika received The Best Short Film Award in 2011 for "The Eyes" (Writer & Director) with Parvin Etesami. In the FIKE - ��vora International Short Film Festival, she received the Best Film Award for "Once Again Memories I Loved"(Writer & Director). With yet another successful project, "When We Pass by Each Other" (Writer & Director), she was nominated for Best Short-Drama in the Fribourg Film Festival.Some of her other notable credits include the following: "La Sandinista" (Editor) won the Jury Prize for SXSW Chicken & Egg Award, S?o Paulo International Film Festival Winner - Audience Award & New Directors Competition, Washington DC Film Festival Winner - Justice Matters Award. "Jews Step Forward" (Editor & Director) Best Human Rights, War & Peace Documentary Feature Award Winner Award of Merit, Best Documentary Feature from Mexico International Film Festival. "Chasing The Rain"(Editor), a Dramedy Feature Film streamed on Amazon. "Conducting The Revolution" and "Lot 448" (Editor) which are both collaborative works of Tribeca & Bvlgari. "Fereshteh", one of her most recent works as both writer and director, is currently in post-production and will soon be ready for its premiere and international release. "Balcony" won the ISF National Film Grant in narrative category for an outstanding short film script and will be in production next fall.
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Elika Rezaee |
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Editor,Editorial Department,Director (IMDB) |
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Elika Rezaee is an international award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She studied graphic design in Tehran. Elika learned her editing and directing skills under the most significant filmmakers in Iran. During this time she b |
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Editor,Editorial Department,Director |
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