Iranian of the Day

Director Tanaz Eshaghian is my Iranian of the day. I fortuitously came across her name and her documentary "Be Like Others" on Wikipedia.

‘Be Like Others’
NEW YORK magazine: In her last film, Love Iranian-American Style, director Tanaz Eshaghian placed herself screen-center and spent hours interviewing well-meaning relatives and commitment-phobic past boyfriends to paint a picture of her culture’s take on courtship. For her hotly tipped new documentary Be Like Others, she focuses her lens on the transsexual counterculture in Iran — where sex changes are legal, despite Über-conservative social values — by following a group of young men as they consider and eventually undergo sex-change operations. She spoke to Vulture from Sundance, where her film premiered on Saturday night >>> Full text