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In 2010 Payami established Payam
Entertainment due to his recent collaborations with Iranian musician, composer and performer Mohsen Namjoo. Payami produced several concerts for Namjoo at the Los Angeles Disney Hall, Toronto Sony Centre and the Milan Conservatory; and Namjoo's albums "OY" in 2009 (a
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Since his exile, Payami has taught at the
Ludwigsburg Film Academy in Germany and conducted numerous workshops in Italy and North America while developing his English-language film projects. In late 2007 and until January 2010, he was the creative director of the Media Studio at Fabrica, a United
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Iranian government, and Payami was forced into exile during the summer of 2003. A working copy of the film was salvaged on a hard disk. With help from fellow Italian filmmakers, Payami released a reconstructed version of the film in the official Venice International Film
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In 2006, Payami reestablished Payam Films Inc. in
Toronto with his partner Charles Wachsberg and began the development of several projects, including an original story he wrote on Caravaggio, titled "Chiaroscuro"; his adaptation of a Chingiz Aitmatov book, "The Eternal Day"; and "Mina" and
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and Iran before leaving for Europe and, subsequently Canada, where he became a
Canadian citizen. He enrolled in the cinema studies program at the University of Toronto in the early 90s while working as a translator and court interpreter.
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