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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with award-winning Iranian American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan about how she overcame years of self doubt. Iranian American writer Desiree Akhavan thought of herself as a ...

Desiree Akhavan probably doesn't want you to call her the new Lena Dunham. In fact, she definitely doesn't want you to call her the next Lena Dunham. She says so. In the interview we're about to ...

While new faces in cinema are a dime a dozen, a combination of freshness and competence is more difficult to find. But Desiree Akhavan’s feature debut is yet another hands-down success from a ...

” is its abrupt moments of humor, given the film’s melancholy subject matter. “I didn't want this movie, just because it happened to be about gay conversion therapy, to feel like taking your medicine, ...

Iranian American writer Desiree Akhavan thought of herself as a social outcast when she was growing up. That would start to change when she was in film school and made a successful comedy series about ...