Caveh Zahedi

Caveh Zahedi (born on April 29, 1960) is an American film director and actor of Iranian descent. Zahedi was born in Washington, D.C. to Iranian immigrant parents. He studied philosophy at Yale University. Upon graduation, Zahedi moved to Paris, France to find funding for his films, but failed to interest any French producers in his projects about Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Eadweard Muybridge. He also succeeded in estranging himself from his idol, Jean-Luc Godard, after he phoned Godard at 3 a.m. He also produced an experimental music video of a Talking Heads song, which was rejected by David Byrne. He subsequently returned to Los Angeles to attend UCLA film school. In the UCLA graduate program he completed his first feature...