Iran short film made in the US

Iranian short film 'Buy Me a Poem' directed by Rezvan Khorsandi has been made based on a memory of Iran oscar-winning director Asqar Farhadi in the US university of Clemson in South Carolina.

The flick is scheduled to be first screened at Campus Movie Fest which aims to help the young filmmakers.

Rezvan Khorsandi, the director of this new production says,  "I was deeply saddened by the problems Iranian have to get a visa."

He adds, "It was the same days when Farhadi's 'The Salesman' was screened and won the Academy Awards. Farhadi's grand gesture of not attending the ceremony was so moving."

The young filmmaker says his main motif of making this movie is to show to the world that Iranians, the nation who pay money to buy poem, are not terrorist.

The story of the movie revolves around the fact that how visa problems has impacted a young couple's life.

Some cast members of 'Buy Me a Poem' are Ali Fayazzi, Mona Rousta and Hunter D. Champlin. 

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