A Bahá’í Lens as Methodology toward Documentary Film

My practice in documentary film has become an explo­ration of common-place social ideas with which we live day by day yet hardly ever question. Following a screening of my latest documentary film, “Name”—a look at how common names affect our development and shape the world around us—I will discuss how through documentary film and my own lens as a Bahá’í, I am attempting to investigate current societal conditions in a way that opens common ground with people who might otherwise be critical of a religious-based methodology. While my films are not focused on explicitly Bahá’í subjects, they utilize the lens of the Faith in the investigative approach geared towards a non- Bahá’í audience.

An award-winning professional film and video pro­ducer/director, primarily working out of Calgary, Al­berta, and Montreal, Quebec, Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi has over twelve years of experience, with credits in over 250 projects with over 600 videos produced.