You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast and this is Cody Derek's interview

with the directors of Cutting Through Rocks, Mohamed Reza Aini and Sarah Kaki.

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that were the next best picture.

And I'm speaking with the directors

of the new documentary

Cutting Through Rocks,

Sarah Faki and Mohamed Reza Ainey.

How are we doing today, folks?

We're doing really great.

Thank you so much for having us, Cody.

Thank you, Cody. We're happy to be here and talk more about the film.

Of course. Thank you for, I can say thank you for making this amazing trip home,

but it's really a very impactful documentary made here about the first female councilwoman

elected to her

Iranian village and the significant pushback she fakes this. So I want to start at the

beginning, even before the film started getting made. How did you first get in contact with

Sarah Ashiburdy? And when did you decide that she would be a worthy documentary subject?

So I was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and I grew up witnessing so many women like Sarah Shavradi

who were fighting for independence and demanding space where they were living at the the same at the time and then i moved to

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