NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with award-winning Iranian American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan about how she overcame years of self doubt. Iranian American writer Desiree Akhavan thought of herself as a ...
Desiree Akhavan is here 2 creep in 'Creep 2' After taking a bow with 2014's indie comedy "Inappropriate Behavior," where she wrote, directed and starred as a young bisexual Persian woman creating her ...
On a recent afternoon, Desiree Akhavan was having chicken soup at a diner in Times Squares and marveling over what could be her big break. At 29, her first feature, “Appropriate Behavior,” which she ...
Iranian American writer Desiree Akhavan thought of herself as a social outcast when she was growing up. That would start to change when she was in film school and made a successful comedy series about ...
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