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00:00Stephanie from Shoals TV, congratulations on being here, on winning, on making your film, on landing on time.
00:07It's absolutely incredible. Could you talk to us a bit more about the circumstances under which you made In the Shadow of the Cypress, please? Thank you.
00:15Actually, it's a very long story and maybe it's not feasible to explain about all of it at this moment.
00:24The most important problem is that we are living under sanctions. It's years that we are living under sanctions.
00:32Our national currency is devaluating and shrinking every day.
00:39Also, the most important thing, I guess, is the economic crisis, the sanctions and the subsequent economic crisis,
00:56and also the mental pressure that we as Iranians suffer from the economic crisis.
01:06Also, there were a lot of problems. For example, I was diagnosed with alopecia universalis disorder,
01:14and the subsequent mental pressure and the expenses. Also, there were a lack of, let me say...
01:24Can I help you?
01:26Yeah, yeah.
01:27Because, you know, a lot of Iranian artists left the country because of all the difficulties in our country.
01:35And so, we had a lot of problems finding, for example, animators for our project.
01:41And, you know, we put six years and a half to make these animated films, just 20-minute film, but we are here.
01:53All those hard years paid off.
01:57Yeah, thank you.
01:59Number 146, please.
02:02Abe Freitanzer, Awards Buzz. Congratulations.
02:05Great to see you.
02:06Can you share if you have another project planned together?
02:12Actually, Hossein and I, we've been always interested in making a feature animated movie.
02:19And we think that... And because we've been working on our film as a distributor of the film as well,
02:28and we don't have any distributors, this is a really independent film.
02:33We are the producer, the directors, the writers, distributors...
02:37And the investors.
02:38And the investors.
02:39So, we didn't find time to work on our next project, which is going to be a feature animated film.
02:47But we are now so happy because we think that this, you know, recognition can help us for our...
02:55Can pave the way.
02:58Thank you so much and congratulations.
03:01Thank you so much.