How have people in Iran reacted to the film?
SN: I got a call from my sister on the 9th of April after our LA premiere. She was with my mother and the day before they had gone to see a movie in Iran and went in to a bookstore and bought five copies of my film. H2N: Wow. SN: We were delighted! They made a cover in Farsi with images and an introduction. And I was like, good for Iranian people! They are way ahead of the game. Through the power of piracy it’s already distributed. I was delighted. I don’t know the reaction to the film, but my feeling is that at the worst it would create some discussion and at best it would create a dialogue about our country’s history prior to the Islamic revolution and our political history. We fought for democracy then, but also for visual history and visual memory and a sense of nostalgia of Iranian people. Some older people may see it that have not looked at themselves in that way before. It was a time when women were fashionable, when women had a choice about wearing the veil, when we listened to
