Emily Atef Tapped To Direct Untitled Farah Diba Pahlavi, Last Empress Of Iran, Feature Film
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct the untitled feature film project centered on the life of Farah Pahlavi, the last Empress of Iran, who was married to the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for 20 years before he died in exile in Egypt in 1980.
As Deadline announced last summer, under a newly formed collaboration with Women of the Movement producers Serendipity Group and John Powers Middleton, who Her Majesty authorized her life rights to, a documentary and a scripted project were in the works.
The doc project was in production in Washington, D.C. at the time of announcement and was expected to continue through the end of 2024 and will resume in March.
The scripted project being developed simultaneously is now known as the Untitled Farah Pahlavi Film Project with Atef directing.
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