sara.naimpour@gmail.com
Education
2016 - 2018 | MFA in Documentary Media (with Distinction), School of Image Arts at the Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario
2005 - 2011 | BFA in Photography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2004 - 2010 | BDes in Industrial Design, Azad University of Art & Architecture, Tehran, Iran
Professional Experience
2021 - present | Digital Content Creator — Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
2019 - 2022 | Assistant Editor — Into The Weeds, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2019 | Post Production Coordinator — Anthropocene Education Program, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2019 | Co-Editor — It's Complicated: a short film by Émeraude Domingos-Mbuku, DocNow Festival 2019, Toronto, ON
2019 | Editor — Ancient Forests by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier (3:07 mins video installation) at Brookfield Place, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2018 | Editor — Ancient Forests by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier (6:30 mins three-channel video installation) at Slaskie Museum in Katowice, Poland — during the COP24 Climate Summit, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2018 - 2022 | Graphic & Web Design Assistant — Mercury Films Inc. | Toronto, ON
2018 | Editor — Ancient Forests by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier (10 mins four-channel video installation), during Nuit Blanche Toronto 2018 and as part of the AGO’s major fall exhibition opening of the Anthropocene Project at Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2018 | Intern Assistant Editor — Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky, Mercury Films Inc., Toronto, ON
2017 | Photographer and Research Assistant to Kathy Wazana, Fes, Rabat, Ouarzazate, Casablanca, Morocco
Selected Exhibitions
& Screenings
2019 | Film Screening — Goli: A Tale of Threads, Tirgan Festival 2019, Toronto, ON
2018 | Film Screening — Goli: A Tale of Threads, Society for Visual Anthropology's Film & Media Festival 2018, San Jose, CA
2018 | Film Screening — Goli: A Tale of Threads, DocNow Festival 2018 at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, Toronto, ON
2018 | Video Screening — We See Them All, A mobile cinema project at The Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2017 | Video Screening — We See Them All: Here In The 6ix at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2017 | Solo Exhibition — All The News..., The Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2017 | Group Exhibition — TTC Above Ground, CONTACT Festival 2017 at The Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2016 | Solo Exhibition — All the news..., Birch Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 | Group Exhibition — Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 | Solo Exhibition — Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us, Art Gallery of University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Publications & Press
2020| Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us - Middle East Images (Online)
2016| All The News... — Memari Magazine (Online)
2014 | Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us — Iranian Photography (Online)
2013-2014 | Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us — Private #58 on Iran Today (Print), Saint-Brisson, France
2013 | Best of Our Memory Lies Outside Us — Cheshmag Magazine No.2 (Print & Online), Tehran, Iran