EXCLUSIVE: In the award-winning documentary Cutting Through Rocks, tears come to the eyes of Sara Shahverdi as she reflects on intense pressure she has faced for flouting convention. “They want me to ...
Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni bring a measured hand to “Cutting Through Rocks,” their debut documentary about the first councilwoman in a rural Iranian village. The film’s irascible but ...
In this video, we showcase the power of a 60,000 psi waterjet cutter as it shapes a large rock. This water cutting technique, similar to laser cutting, demonstrates extreme erosion akin to the ...
In Cutting Through Rocks, directors Mohammadreza Eyni and Sara Khaki follow Iranian councilwoman Sarah Shahverdi, who teaches girls to ride motorcycles and uses her position to try to end child ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But perhaps most surprising is that so much of Shahverdi’s family and community admire her, enough so that she running to become ...
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks follows Sara Shahverdi, a middle-aged divorcee in a remote and extremely conservative region of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What makes the ...