Roqe - Ep #89 - Hana Shahnavaz, Armin Amiri

Feature interviews with celebrated Iranian-British painter, Hana Shahnavaz, and Iranian-American actor and producer, Armin Amiri. Hana joins Jian from London to discuss growing up in England with a fascination for Iran, and then her journey there where she found the inspiration to begin painting using pigments found in natural earth, sand, plants and insects. Then Armin joins from Los Angeles to recount his wild journey from Iran as a kid dreaming of being in the movies, his fateful encounter with Michael Jackson, and his road to acting success in America including appearing in and co-producing a new film called, The Night, which is the first American-produced film to be released in Iran since 1979. Plus the Roqe Team reads contentious letters and Jian tells the story of getting stuck in Clubhouse.