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Oh, and now somebody just wrote in Light Olive, so it continues.

But now we'll conclude our series talking with the five creators of this year's Oscar-nominated documentary.

We do this series each year in Oscar season, as regular listeners know.

Nothing wrong with other places centering the great actors and directors and others behind the arts and entertainment films.

But as one piece of being alternative radio, public radio, we focus on the documentaries on this show.

Today, we'll talk to the filmmakers behind cutting through rocks, and we'll hear some clips.

Cutting Through Rocks is the first Iranian-made documentary to earn an Oscar nomination.

This film took eight years to make, I'm told,

but its story turns out to be especially relevant right now, right, with the pro-democracy

protests taking place there. The film focuses on Sarah Shavardi, the first woman elected to serve

as a village council member in rural northwestern Iran.

Here is Sarah in her own words.

Nichita no-kis dunya to come from, then from Godam goal goslored, that Ogloula.

But man, I was hoping for a son,

but I was born a girl. My father took me to places where only boys were allowed. And I guess

that sets up how she got into politics. So with me now are the filmmakers, Sarkaki, and

Mohamed Reza Aeney. Welcome to WNYC and

congratulations on your Oscar nomination. Hello and thank you so much for having us here at WNYC.

Sarah, how did you first meet your namesake and why did you want to make a film about her?

Well, I was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and I grew up witnessing so many tenacious

individuals like Sarah Shafradi who were fighting for their independence and demanding

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