Yassamin Maleknasr is the first Iranian woman filmmaker to graduate from the University of Southern California in Film and Televisio Production . She did post-graduate work in Drama at Towson State University in Maryland . She made her first short film , '' Jazz Ballet '' in the U.S. ; then after several years working at American film companies , she returned to Tehran to perform in Dariush Mehrjui 's film Sara ( 1993 ) for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Award from the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran . She has also acted in a number of other Iranian features
Fajr International Film Festival
Fajr International Film Festival
Yassamin Maleknasr