Mohammad Reza Eyni
Directing
Biography
Mohammadreza Eyni is an Iranian-based director, producer, writer, and DP, and a recent Sundance Film Institute grantee, who works independently on socially relevant topics as well as stories about the arts. Mohammadreza’s recent feature, Cutting Through Rocks, currently in production, has received support from Sundance Film institute, Bertha Foundation, as well as Hot Docs Cross Current Doc Fund, among others.
Known For
Activists and volunteers work through the darkest days of 2020, galvanizing social change amidst chaos as governments start to fail local communities. This epic, globally spanning and deeply passionate documentary serves as a clarion call that great change can be born of crisis.
Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a landslide local election in her remote Iranian village and everyone has an opinion about it.
Cutting Through Rocks
A young Iranian documentary filmmaker, Mohammadreza Eyni, decides to make a portrait documentary film about the most prominent Iranian painter, Abolghasem Saidi, who moved to Paris seventy years ago. With Saidi's agreement, the 32 year-old filmmaker goes to Paris to start the film, only to face closed doors. "The Friend's House" is the story of two generations, where each aims to understand and challenge another's perspective. Throughout the process of filmmaking, the filmmaker starts to question and challenge himself.
The Friend's House
A rare glimpse into the lives of a young couple in lockdown in Iran.