{"id":18704,"date":"2017-03-02T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:55:21","slug":"with-travel-ban-stayed-spirit-award-nominated-iranian-filmmaker-rokhsareh-ghaemmaghami-still-found-some-us-embassies-didnt-give-me-an-appointment-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/events\/with-travel-ban-stayed-spirit-award-nominated-iranian-filmmaker-rokhsareh-ghaemmaghami-still-found-some-us-embassies-didnt-give-me-an-appointment-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"With Travel Ban Stayed, Spirit Award-Nominated Iranian Filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami still found \u201cSome US embassies didn\u2019t give me an appointment.” – EXCLUSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sundance Award-winning and Spirit Award-nominated Iranian documentary filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami is no stranger to the politics of immigration. Born in Tehran, when her latest feature documentary \u201cSonita\u201d appeared in the Edge Documentary Festival in New Zealand in Spring 2016, Ghaemmaghami was initially denied entry to the country on the grounds immigration \u201cfound insufficient ties between her and her country [Iran].\u201d After an international outcry, Immigration New Zealand changed its stance and ultimately issued her a visa. But Ghaemmaghami\u2019s issues with visas and immigration authorities were not over.<\/p>\n

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Announced in November 2016 as a Film Independent Spirit Award Nominee for Best Documentary for \u201cSonita\u201d, it was always her intention to travel to the United States for the awards ceremony in Santa Monica in February 2017. Then Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and on January 27, 2017, issued Executive Order 13769, titled \u201cProtecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States\u201d. Given Ghaemmaghami is from Iran, she was effectively banned from traveling to the United States for the awards. Along with Ghaemmaghami, several Oscar-nominated filmmakers also found themselves in similar situations.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the ruling of the Ninth Circuit, Executive Order 13769 was temporarily stayed, thus opening the door for Ghaemmaghami to attend the Spirit Awards this past Saturday. However, even with the stay, it was not an easy road obtaining a visa for entry into the United States. \u201cIt was an interesting experience. First, we were banned. All those countries were banned. I was thinking, \u2018Okay. I\u2019m not going to go.\u2019 I didn\u2019t have a good feeling about it. I was hearing all these stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reconciling herself to the fact she would not be able to attend the Spirit Awards, a ceremony celebrating \u201cindependent spirit\u201d, it was the American people who turned the tide for Ghaemmaghami. \u201c[W]hen I saw so much solidarity and so much resistance by the American people and then the federal court and the judiciary system of America, I found my feelings back. It\u2019s not the whole America that wants this ban.\u201d With a glint in her eye, she chuckled that it was ultimately Trump\u2019s Twitter posts that were the final bit of encouragement she needed to try to make the trip. \u201cHe was so angry that the ban is gone. I said, \u2018Okay. Now I\u2019m coming! If it really makes you so mad, I am coming!\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merely because the ban was stayed, however, did not mean obtaining a visa would be easy. As Ghaemmaghami tells it, there are still forces at play seemingly obfuscating legitimate efforts for entry into the United States. \u201cSome US embassies didn\u2019t give me an appointment. . . One gave me an appointment. It was not easy to get an appointment. And I know other filmmakers who couldn\u2019t get an appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But once she obtained her visa, there was still the actual travel. \u201cI was very nervous about my arrival. I called my friends. They were in the airport with lawyers. I was so nervous about being checked and [the authorities] getting all of my information and social media.\u201d Luckily, there were no further hurdles. \u201cMy arrival was very smooth. Nobody asked me even a single question. . .It was surprising, surprisingly easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy, at ease and excited to finally be on the Spirit Awards signature blue carpet, Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami calls her journey from making of the film to nomination to the beach in Santa Monica to be \u201cone of my best experiences.\u201d When asked what she will take away from the Spirit Awards, she was reflective. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I will take home from being at the Independent Spirit Awards, but always I am more touched by how people receive my movies; ordinary people. When they have shown this movie in many refugee camps in Europe, that was my best experience of making the movie. When you reach the people who need to see a movie and you change their lives, it\u2019s the best experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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