Organised by

Iran Heritage Foundation and the Iranian Jewish Centre

Date

Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 6.30pm

Location

Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP

Description

This talk will describe a project to re-evaluate the life and work of Abdol Hossein Sardari, who was the acting Iranian Consul in Paris during the Second World War and who issued documents to many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews to save them from the Holocaust.

Mahdieh Zardiny has been working on a documentary about Sardari’s life and the lives of those he helped save, and as part of this project there has been an application made for him to be recognised in the List of Righteous Among the Nations at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Zardiny will discuss the project and show some clips from this upcoming documentary.

Biography

Mahdieh Zardiny has over ten years’ experience in the film industry with over five years working as a researcher and picture editor in international TV worldwide. After completing her MA in Documentary Filmmaking at Royal Holloway University of London, she began her career in making documentary films.

Zardiny has produced a number of documentaries and short fiction films, including ‘An Iranian In Paris’ (2013), which was screened at the Prades film festival and has been broadcasted in the Voice Of America.

Since 2013 she has been working on her first feature-length documentary: ‘Sardari’s Enigma’.

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