MFA, Film and Television Production, UCLA
BA, Philosophy, Yale University

Caveh Zahedi is an independent filmmaker who is best known for writing, directing, and starring in I Am A Sex Addict, for taking mushrooms with singer/songwriter Will Oldham in Tripping with Caveh, and for his appearance as himself in Waking Life.   

•    Film Production and Post-Production

•    Directing

•    Screenwriting

•    Documentary

•    Third Cinema

•    Film History

•    The Unmaking of I Am A Sex Addict (2009)

•    One Minute Racist (2008)

•    I Am A Sex Addict (2006)

•    Tripping with Caveh (2003)

•    The World is a Classroom (2002)

•    In the Bathtub of the World (2001)

•    I Was Possessed By God (1999)

•    I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994)

•    A Little Stiff (1991)

New Narrative Strategies, Fiction/Documentary Hybrids, Reinventing Film Genres

•    Independent Feature Project

•    Society for Cinema and Media Studies

•    Rome Prize

•    Guggenheim

•    IFP Spirit Award, “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You”

•    Critics’ Prize, Rotterdam International Film Festival