Biography

Sarah R. Lotfi, is an American writer-director born to an Iranian father and Chinese-American mother. Her love for history and world culture converged into a passion for filmmaking at a young age. In 2009, she helped launch the Intersections Film Festival featuring women filmmakers from the Middle East. At the age of 22, Lotfi was named a regional winner and national finalist in the 37th Student Academy Awards in 2010, for her surrealist re-imagining of the Russian front in her film The Last Bogatyr. Through the Emmy Foundation's National College TV Internship, Lotfi worked on HBO Films' Cinema Veritae. Other credits include work with ABC and National Geographic. Lotfi is also the writer and director of the award-winning German-language WWII film on disability, Menschen, which received 'very honorable mention' in the 2012 Senses of Cinema World Poll as well as awards including "Audience Choice", "Best Actor" and "Best of Fest". Lotfi has been a frequent panelist on crowd-funding after many successful campaigns on Indie GoGo and Kickstarter. In January 2014, Lotfi gave a presentation on Open Collaborations in Independent Filmmaking in the World Intellectual Property Organization's conference on Open Innovation: Collaborative Projects and the Future of Knowledge at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Lotfi has also taught film theory at the University of Colorado.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

Speaks some Farsi.

Father immigrated to the United States from Iran as a university student prior to the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in 1978.

Related through mother to the Yang family. Great-grandfather was political advisor to Chang kai-shek before the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Colorado Springs, CO, USA: Supervising post production on Menschen, USA/Austrian co production exploring disability in WWII.

There is always a solution, the challenge for us is to find one now that meets the needs of the film and people behind it.

I believe that it is my responsibility to tell the truth as a filmmaker to the best of my ability and if at all possible be true to the history, culture, characters and most importantly the story...while the audiences watch a well-crafted story on film or video, it suspends your disbelief, that means people are going to believe what they see, so why take so much artistic license?