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Ava Maria Safai’s Foreigner confronts the immigrant nightmare

Sarah Regan

What does it mean to be Canadian? That’s the question Iranian Canadian filmmaker Ava Maria Safai was presented with while completing her application for Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program—a funding initiative that supports emerging filmmakers in producing their first feature. As part of the process, she dug into the archives of previously funded projects […] More »