IRAN GALLERY
In 2012, I spent a total of six months in Iran. The sanctions were still in place. The country was economically depressed. As an agent of change, I was invited to judge film festivals, speak publically before crowds, be interviewed on TV and for the press and I was hired to write a screenplay about the Airbus disaster of 1989 when the USS Vincennes downed a passenger liner killing all aboard. I call that script "Still Waters Run." My travels in Iran and the culture of the place affected me deeply. I hope to return in this lifetime.
We arrived here to the sounds of little children playing. There was a light rain and the air was cool. As we descended the other side of the mountain, the heat quickly rose thirty degrees.
Marjan Ashrafizadeh, the talented director of the film Wet Letters, my choice for first place at the Iranian Film and Video Festival.
Mehran, our guide and friend, called them the Kalutes. They rose out of the flatness like stalagmites would from some subterranean chasm. Never had I witnessed such an other worldly display of monuments. They were something out of a Clarke novel and the chase we had endured to get there had left us gasping.
With Barry and Beatrice With the director of Wet Letters At the holy shrine in Mashad At the Kalouts in the big desert
at a mountain top school winner of the festival. Big talent. no image of man can be seen An off worldly place of magic.
At Bam with my friend, Taba. International pilgrims in Kerman At the Shrine in Mashad In the hot desert near Kerman
Friends Paxton, Masoud and Melika
Sean Stone and Crew
Actor: Barry Greene
