Zamarin Wahdat
About
Zamarin was born in Afghanistan and raised in Germany, and was a Dean’s fellow at NYU’s Graduate Film Program where she studied film directing and cinematography. Zamarin Wahdat has a deep interest in expanding the boundaries of how to tell stories visually. She’s drawn to stories that let us not only see but feel communities and characters from the inside out. Her films have won awards at numerous film festivals, including the Oscars, Sundance, Berlinale, BFI Film Festival and Tribeca.
Zamarin received the Nestor Almendros Award for outstanding Cinematography in 2018, was an Arri Volker Bahnemann Finalist, and a 2018 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow in cinematography.
Stampede
On a southern plantation in the 1800s, Lena is an eleven-year-old slave with telekinetic abilities she cannot control. Lena must keep her powers under wraps when she is separated from her mother to be a house girl, in close quarters with the volatile Master’s wife: Elizabeth.