The Crimson Coyote podcast welcomes Filmmaker, Musician, and Activist, ARIANA DELAWARI to Episode #3!
Ariana Delawari is an Afghan-American filmmaker, musician, and activist, who is based in Los Angeles, California. We collaborated together on an art benefit I directed and curated called #YESALLWOMEN, where she contributed a mixed-media piece that incorporated photos, memories, and text from her journeys to Afghanistan. A year after 9/11, Ariana found herself on a plane to Afghanistan for the first time and began a 10-year documentation of her father’s homeland. We Came Home is her award-winning feature length directorial debut; the film is a culmination of this documentation, her family story, and the making of her album Lion of Panjshir. Ariana was a performer and speaker at the inaugural TEDxKabul. She also started a movement in Afghanistan called Inspire Peace. She wrote and directed a short surreal docu-musical film, Entelechy, that accompanies her second double album Entelechy I & II. She recently collaborated with filmmaker Joey Soloway in co-writing and performing a song for the show I Love Dick. Ariana co-created an app called Afghanistan Connect with the CEO and Afghan female coding students of Code to Inspire, Afghanistan’s first coding school for girls.
In Episode #3, we discuss the recent loss of her mother, her father’s political work, post-9/11 Afghanistan, war, filmmaking, recording music, the Taliban, the Muslim Ban, Islamophobia, and much more.
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(Photo: Naj Jamai)
