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Background: This hour-long documentary will focus on the assimilation of the Zoroastrian community into North America. The film will highlight the challenges faced by members of this ancient Persian religion today. By documenting the personal stories of individual Zoroastrians, we will shed light on this little known but highly successful community, enabling others to appreciate the religion's rich history and heritage.

These character-driven, stories will underscore the challenges facing many immigrant groups in the 21st century and will follow the assimilation process of a small group into a wider social setting.

What beliefs have the Zoroastrians doggedly held on to? What have they been forced to discard? Will the followers of the world's oldest monotheistic religion be able to hold on to this claim 50 years from now - as their numbers rapidly decline? These are some of the central questions that this film will attempt to answer.

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Islam has been politicized and misinterpreted by a small group of fundamentalist fanatics. This unfortunate misinterpretation resulted in the tragedy of 9/11, as well as extremely barbaric behavior towards some Muslim women. This film de-mystifies Islam by giving Muslim women, with different opinions, a collective voice.

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Follows 35 Zoroastrian youth as they search for the roots of their religion, Zoroastrianism, in Iran. A film by Tenaz H. Dubash

This documentary captures the journey of thirty-four, Zoroastrian Americans to Iran. This group of young Zoroastrians is very eager to trace their roots and history by visiting the country where one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions, their religion, Zoroastrianism, originated. Their desire to walk in the footsteps of their ancestors leads to this incredible journey. A trip that is full of risk - a pilgrimage that involves traveling to a country that has no American embassy and a collective passion for their history that will not let any of this stop them. Besides following the evolution in the thoughts of the eager, young pilgrims, the film allows the viewer a rare glimpse of Iran, a country that has shut itself from the rest of the world for the past 20 years.

This film has been screened in New York City, Boston, London, Hong Kong, Pakistan and India. It is currently being distributed to colleges and universities, in the US and overseas.

"Extremely informative and visually stunning." - Hesh Sarmalkar, The Asia Society

"An excellent introduction to Zoroastrianism for high school and college students."
- Dolly Vania, Teacher and administrator

60 minutes Color Video
� Tenaz Dubash, 2000

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