About Ana Lily Amirpour

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November 18, 2014
Ana Lily Amirpour is the director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, one of the year’s most impressive American cinematic debuts. Premiering at Sundance this year and taking absolutely no prisoners, the film is an “Iranian vampire-Western-love story” in black and white, its genre-bending proclivities coming hand-in-hand with a surprising depth of soul. Amirpour, formerly an artist and frontwoman of a rock band, here explains what propelled her to make the film she did, and the importance of asking “why” – the question you’ll spend your life answering.