OUR MISSION

Film Society is a nonprofit, public benefit organization, an educational and cultural institution dedicated to the promotion of World Cinema, serving Iranian and International communities in Los Angeles.

Our mission is to entertain, educate, and increase the viewers understanding of film art and help the general public to become an active rather than a passive viewer. This will also add to the pleasure of the movie going experience, realizing that a film can be viewed from a variety of perspectives: national, cultural, ideological, aesthetic, and...

One of our goals is to introduce Iranian and foreign Filmmakers and artists without preconceptions and regardless of their political and religious affiliations, their sexual orientation or their personal beliefs. We firmly believe that it is the artistic endeavor itself that matters, and not the individual behind it. If the quality or relevance of all arts were contingent on the artist’s political leanings, race, religion, sanity or sexuality and its unavoidable foibles, there would be nothing to move, stimulate or teach us. Our world would be a sad, flattened, arid one.

Your support will help us to attain this mission.

Hassan Fayyad, Founder and Artistic Director

Hassan Fayyad is an alumni of UCLA's film school, former writer-director of documentary films for the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts; producer-director and head of Special Production Departments, NIRT (National Iranian Radio and Television); Member, Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts), Faculty of Fine Art (University of Tehran) and College of Cinema and Television (National Iranian Radio and Television); Writer, Filmmaker, Film Critic, and Literary Translator.

Mr. Fayyad has also thought Cinema and Theatre Arts at UCLA, Oxnard College, and Pacific Art Center. His recent translation: Freedom, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz, was published four years ago in Tehran, Iran and Homesick Blues: Langston Hughes Selected Poems, his latest translation was published last year in Tehran-Iran. In addition, his book: Reflections on Cinema: Essays on Film Aesthetic and Criticism will be published next year in Tehran, Iran. Currently, in addition to teaching, Mr. Fayyad is working on two film projects: Forough Farrokhzad: A Journey Along The Line of Time and Langston Hughes: A Dream Deferred (English version).