Shoresh Kalantari

Shoresh Kalantari is an award-winning and Oscar-nominated Iranian-Dutch filmmaker who has worked as an independent producer and director over the last 30 years. His short film "Meaning of Night" was nominated for a student Oscar in 1996; his other work has been showed in many film festivals around the world. Shoresh led the Multimedia Unit for the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan producing weekly award-winning Television shows related to human rights issues in the war-torn country. He also trained many young Afghans award-winning filmmakers, journalists, photojournalists that have contributed to rebuild the audiovisual memory of Afghanistan.