Join the UIS Visual Arts Gallery for a screening and artist talk presented by Naghmeh Farzaneh, an Iranian filmmaker, art director, and animator based in Chicago. This event, held conjunction with International Education Week at UIS, is free and open to the public. 

Naghmeh Farzaneh’s independent films have received international recognition and awards in festivals such as Animateka, Heartland, Chicago Children’s Film Festival, Tricky women, Farhang, New Orleans Film, and Oberhausen Film Festival. Her animated short, Scent of Geranium, was premiered by Vimeo Staff Pick and was selected as one of the ten best short films from 2017 by the National Geographic Short Film Showcase.  

Over the last decade, Naghmeh has extensively collaborated with independent artists and filmmakers. She has held key roles as a director and art director for clients such as The New Yorker, Meow Wolf, Sesame Workshop, ACLU, TED-ED, and Onassis Foundation. In her latest collaboration, Naghmeh was the animation art director of the feature documentary In the Dark of the Valley, which received an Emmy nomination for outstanding Social Issue Documentary in 2022.  

Naghmeh Farzaneh serves as an assistant professor at DePaul University, teaching animation.