Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year, Desiree Akhavan ...

In Desiree Akhavan’s feature debut, Appropriate Behavior, the cowriter/director was front and center as Shirin, a young, bisexual Persian Brooklynite trying to figure out how to live her life, one ...

"I'm tired of feeling disgusted with myself." FilmRise has finally released the first official US trailer for The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the latest from talented filmmaker Desiree Akhavan ...

She’s overeducated, underemployed, badly sexed — you might think you’ve heard 20-something Shirin’s story before, but you haven’t. Written and directed by and starring newcomer Desiree Akhavan, ...

Desiree Akhavan seems like a perfectly happy, well-adjusted person. Yet she seldom goes shopping without feeling a little sad. “It’s an experience I’ve had many, many times,” Akhavan explains. “I go ...

The storm before the calm hits well into this film about a young Brooklyn woman in and (presumably) out of love. No spoiler this: In the first five minutes we learn that lovers Shirin (writer/director ...

When her film ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Desiree Akhavan expected to hear from interested buyers. Instead, crickets. The festival market has cooled in ...

The Bisexual is Desiree Akhavan’s newest comedy-drama which is determined to change everything you ever thought you knew about bisexuality. Centred around a woman named Leila, who has identified for ...

EXCLUSIVE: Production has officially started on Creep 2, with actor-director Desiree Akhavan signing on to star in the Blumhouse and Duplass Brothers production opposite Mark Duplass. A sequel to ...

The indie breakout didn't get her "Colin Trevorrow moment," and she responded the only way she knew how: by making her own opportunities. Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, ...

Most references to director, writer and actress Desiree Akhavan place a neat three-word descriptor by her name: bisexual Iranian American, often followed by the words “the next Lena Dunham.” Yet ...