Best Of: Filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz / TOKiMONSTA

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🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Iranian American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz was banned from returning to Iran after the release of her first feature, Circumstance, about Iran's youth underground culture, and two young women who fall in love. That film and her new one, The Persian Version, won the Audience Award at Sundance. She spoke with Terry Gross about her family and sneaking American pop music into Iran as a kid.

Ken Tucker will review a new Joni Mitchell box set of rare recordings from the early '70s.

Also, we'll hear from electronic music producer and DJ Jennifer Lee, better known as TOKiMONSTA. In 2016 she was diagnosed with a rare brain disease that required two surgeries — leaving her without the ability to hear sound or speak. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her recovery and relearning the language of music.

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0:17.6	this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:19.2	I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:20.7	Today, Iranian-American filmmaker, Mariam Keshevars.
0:24.9	She was banned from returning to Iran
0:26.6	after the release of her first feature circumstance.
0:29.6	About Iran's youth underground culture
0:32.0	and two young women who fall in love.
0:34.6	The film and her new work, The Persian Version,
0:37.3	won the audience award at Sundance.
0:39.9	Also, we'll hear from electronic music producer
0:42.6	in DJ Jennifer Lee, better known as Toki Mansta.
0:46.4	She's considered a pioneer in electronic music,
0:49.1	a field where men dominate.
0:51.2	In 2016, she was diagnosed with a rare brain disease
0:54.3	that required two surgeries,
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