Simin Farkhondeh

Editing Manager

Fall 2000 - Spring 2006

Simin Farkhondeh is responsible for the NML audio and video editing suite. She was born in Germany and raised in Iran. She has been working as an independent video producer, educator and activist in New York, Europe and Iran. She was co-producer, co-director of the Gulf Crisis TV Project, a ten part series that aired on PBS and on Channel Four in England and was given the Global Africa Award. From 1994 to 2002, Simin directed and produced Labor at the Crossroads (LABORX), an American Social History Project production for and about working people, which aired on CUNY TV. The LABOR X  collection is currently being archived and will be a part of the New York University Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. In 1996 Simin created the curriculum for a Worker Video Training Program, which she co-taught until 2000. Simin is a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Artists Fellowship for Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips, a video about temporary marriage in Iranian culture. Currently she is editing Caught Between Two Worlds; Iranians in the USA.