{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-20T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-09-20T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T21:12:58","slug":"toronto-08-discovery-interview-the-stoning-of-soraya-m-director-cyrus-nowrasteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8217;08 DISCOVERY INTERVIEW | Director Cyrus Nowrasteh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/people\/2008\/09\/toronto_08_disc_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/people\/2008\/09\/toronto_08_disc_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cyrus Nowrasteh<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;<strong>The Stoning of Soraya M.<\/strong>&#8221; will be having its World Premiere in the Discovery section of the\u00a0<strong>Toronto International Film Festival<\/strong>. Starring\u00a0<strong>Shohreh Aghdashloo<\/strong>, the film follows a woman falsely accused of adultery in a remote Iranian village. Based on the book by<strong>Freidoune Sahebjam<\/strong>, TIFF describes &#8220;Stoning&#8221; as about &#8220;voiceless women, armed with only their innocence and dignity, [who] are no match for the overwhelming primal forces that overrun their town.&#8221; Nowrasteh talked to indieWIRE about the film and his hopes for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/people\/2008\/09\/toronto_08_disc_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/people\/2008\/09\/toronto_08_disc_1.html<br \/>\nCyrus Nowrasteh&#8216;s &#8220;The Stoning of Soraya M.&#8221; will be having its World Premiere in the Discovery section of the\u00a0Toronto International Film Festival. Starring\u00a0Shohreh Aghdashloo, the film follows a woman falsely &hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TORONTO &#8217;08 DISCOVERY INTERVIEW | Director Cyrus Nowrasteh<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyrusnowrasteh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}