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Caveh Zahedi I Am a Sex Addict

Caveh Zahedi

Caveh Zahedi has made six original video and film works since 1991, primarily humorous experimental autobiographies. His works include In the Bathtub of the World, I was Possessed by God (1999), I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994), and A Little Stiff (1992). Zahedi has won awards from the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film and Video Festival, the Athens International Festival, and the Atlanta Film and Video Festival, and received funding from the Film Arts Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2002

    Grant

    Zahedi receives San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equality Grant

  • 2003

    Residency

    Zahedi receives Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Residency

  • 2003

    Award

    Zahedi receives a Lifetime Achievement Award form the Dahlonega International Film Festival

  • 2005

    Retrospective

    The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents a retrospective of Zahedi’s work

  • 2005

    Fellowship

    Zahedi receives MacDowell Colony Fellowship

  • 2007

    Award

    Zahedi receives a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome

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