Discipline: Film/Video

Caveh Zahedi

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More: www.cavehzahedi.com
Caveh Zahedi is an American film director and actor of Iranian descent. He studied philosophy at Yale University. Upon graduation, he moved to Paris to find funding for his films, but failed to interest any French producers in his projects about Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Eadweard Muybridge. Zahedi subsequently returned to Los Angeles to attend UCLA film school. In the UCLA graduate program he completed his first feature film, A Little Stiff (1991), with fellow student Greg Watkins. The film was an experimental narrative in which he re‑enacted his unrequited love for a UCLA art student, using real-life participants. A Little Stiff premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Studios

Heyward

Caveh Zahedi worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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