saman

films / clay / collage / photo / gardens / video art

Saman Maydani is an award-winning director, editor, and producer of documentary and narrative films. She is attracted to the power of film as a tool for human connection and healing. Her work explores our relationship to power and authority, focusing on the experiences of the feminine and other cultures at the margins.

Her first film "Even the Walls" won the 2015 Golden Space Needle Award for Best Short Film at the Seattle International Film Festival. In 2016, she was selected to participate in Black Factory Cinema’s final filmmaker workshop with Abbas Kiarostami at La Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba. Her latest collaboration, “Since I Been Down” was released in 2020 and will soon be available for streaming.

In short, she is a maker of things on a mission to demystify creativity and to connect.