SIDE BY SIDE: LE VIE DELL’IMMAGINE AWARD GOES TO MARJANE SATRAPI

The Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi has received the award “Le vie dell’immagine” bestowed on her by Cinematografo, Giornate degli Autori, and NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti). Before it is handed to her in the Sala Laguna, the director of Persepolis will meet with the audience there for a talk.

Marjane Satrapi, born in Iran and a naturalized French citizen, is a highly talented cartoonist, writer and director, polemicist, illustrator and painter. She’s famous for her best-known graphic novel, Persepolis, in which she portrays the lives of Iranian women after the Iranian Revolution. Not only was Persepolis a bestseller as a graphic novel, it was also made in to a film in 2007, directed by Satrapi herself and Vincent Paronnaud. Satrapi went on to direct Poulet aux prunes (Chicken with Plums, 2011), Gang of the Jotas (2012), The Voices (2014), and Radioactive (2019), along with this year’s Paradis Paris.