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Javad Zeiny
Dr. Javad Zeiny is teaching English literature and Film Studies at the universities of France and Switzerland. Graduate of Fribourg University (Swiss), Concordia University (Canada), and Paris Cité University (France). His research considers the histories, theories, and trajectories of Iranian, Canadian, and U.S. films and media. He is the author of five books, including Iranian Cinema, a national cinema under the influences (from 1900 to 1978- before the revolution), published in 2015. He has published articles on French-speaking cinema and Iranian films in different magazines (in Canada, France, and Iran). His films have been screened and broadcast internationally, winning awards. Since 2004 he has been the artistic director of the Uninvited Film Festival, which is taking place in Paris.
A member of Archive/Counter-Archive’s Researchers (York University-Canada)https://counterarchive.ca/aca-researchers-and-partners, he is currently working on Canadian Cinema, with an emphasis on migration, displacement, and settlement.
