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Alan Niku
Digital Storytellers Lab
2024 Fellow
THE DREAMY KALIMI
The Jews of Iran are one of the most important communities of Jews, with the least amount of widely available information about them. A series of humorous online videos about the misunderstood Persian Jews will highlight their unimaginably cool history and culture, from the beginning of the diaspora to the present day.
Alan Niku is a writer and MFA filmmaker from the only Persian-Kurdish-Assyrian-Jewish family in San Luis Obispo, California. He has written and directed comedic shorts, music videos, mockumentaries, and a Bollywood-style action flick shot in the back-alleys of LA. His dozen feature and TV pilot scripts are, in the words of his grandmother, "get that computer out of my face, weirdo."
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