Cambiz A. Khosravi
is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose works have been featured in film festivals, broadcast both here in the US and abroad.
The videos are also part of the permanent collections of major museums such as MoMA, The Kitchen, NYC
and libraries such as Harvard,Yale and Columbia Universities.
Casablanca Unpacked-2025
A journey with Cambiz A. Khosravi,
behind the making of this beloved film.
Full Video:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/451436
Trailer: https://youtu.be/S8NDcImpVUw
Birth of Cinema-2022
Official Selections-
International Film Festival The Hague, Netherlands.
Primavera Film Festival Barcelona Barcelona, Spain.
Full Video:
Inheritance-2014
Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B082VD88ZX/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
Congratulations for a work that deftly combines the personal and the political.
Stephen Kinzer- All The Shah’s Men.
Full Video:
Inheritance-interview
On April of 2016, I was interviewed by a representative of The Ammar Popular Film Festiva-Tehran, Iran. This interview obviously was conducted to find out where I stood visa vie the Islamic Republic of Iran and especially Ayatollah Khomeini.
Full Video:https://youtu.be/Y-vaVRF_y9A
CASABLANCA : Behind the Screen
CASABLANCA:Behind the Screen-Part One
Hosted by: Cambiz A. Khosravi.
These short videos explore the making of this beloved film, highlighting various discoveries, some know and others that aren't.
This from the vantage point of having produced a documentary,
in 1992 on Casablanca’s co-screen writer Howard Koch.
FULL VIDEO
CASABLANCA:Behind the Screen-Part Two
Hosted by: Cambiz A. Khosravi.
These short videos explore the making of this beloved film, highlighting various discoveries, some know and others that aren't.
This from the vantage point of having produced a documentary,
in 1992 on Casablanca’s co-screen writer Howard Koch.
FULL VIDEO
CASABLANCA:Behind the Screen-Part Three
Hosted by: Cambiz A. Khosravi.
These short videos explore the making of this beloved film, highlighting various discoveries, some know and others that aren't.
This from the vantage point of having produced a documentary,
in 1992 on Casablanca’s co-screen writer Howard Koch.
FULL VIDEO
Selected Documentaries-1983-2012
Woodstock:In Search of Utopia-2012
How did Woodstock become one of the most famous small towns in the world? This documentary examines the surprising roots behind it.
Screened at
Upstate Films, Woodstock NY.
FULL VIDEO
Food not Drugs-2003
Official selection of
the Woodstock Film Festival-2003
The closing of Woodstock's Grand Union supermarket
and its takeover by CVS. And how Woodstockers dealt with it in their different ways.
FULL VIDEO
You Don't Know Me... 2001
Official Selection
Woodstock Film Festival, 2001.
Screened at Upstate Films and featured in The 2002, Human Rights Project Film Series, Bard College, NY.
The story of Dewin Vargas, who was 18 when he fatally
stabbed Glen Trapanese, on Jan. 23, 1999.
FULL VIDEO
Chinua Achebe:The Importance of Stories-1996
Official Selection
Jamaica International Reggae Film Festival, 2013.
CHINUA ACHEBE, one of Africa's greatest authors examines how he and modern Africa itself were shaped by a history of racism and colonialism.
Screened at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY.
John La Fever as Joseph Conrad.
FULL VIDEO
Howard Koch: You Must Remember This...1994
"A splendid and fascinating profile. Recommended for public and academic libraries with film history collections." - Library Journal.
Permanent collection of MoMA, (Museum of Modern Art) NYC.
Aired on WABC-Australia.
Screened at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY.
Sigrid Heath -narrator.
FULL VIDEO
John Burroughs:The Catskill Guru-1988
John Burroughs (1837–1921), was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.
John La Fever, Sigrid Heath and Gilles Malkine -Voice overs
Herbert Haufrecht -Music.
Commissioned by:
WMHT-TV.
FULL VIDEO
Woodstock:From Plough to Easel-1987
First documentary on my home town of Woodstock of 40 years.
Produced and aired on WMHT-TV in 1987.
Featuring Sigrid Heath and Edward Sanders as narrators
and the original artists who moved there in the 1920s and 1930s.
Also featuring the incomparable Woodstock Town Historian:
Alf Evers (1905–2004).
Herbert Haufrecht- Music.
FULL VIDEO
CURRIED GOAT:JAMAICAN STYLE-1985
CURRIED GOAT:JAMAICAN STYLE, was produced for
WMHT-TV. It deals with Jamaican migrant workers brought here under the H2 Labor program. Aired at THE KITCHEN, NYC documentary series in 1986.
Amy Taubin, critic of the Village Voice, rightly identified that
the killing of the goat was a metaphor for the plight of these workers.
FULL VIDEO
A Masterpiece for a Six pack-1983
Featuring John Ernst and Pearl Bond with their daughter Della.
The family is seen in their struggle to deal with John's alcoholism.
A follow up was taped many years later,
which goes in depth behind the Ernst family's life.
With Rickie Sanchez, poet Marilyn Mohr and
Herbert and Betty Haufrecht.
FULL VIDEO
https://youtu.be/_AEVcFq32zk?si=xaAmgh3
Who Reaps the Harvester-1983
First documentary which I produced in 1983.
It deals with the plight of migrant farm workers at
Jack Gill's farm in West Hurley, NY.
Gill's farm was only 8 miles from Woodstock, where I had recently moved to in 1981.
FULL VIDEO
John Cage
John Cage's 4'33"
Premiered in 1952 at the Maverick Concert Hall Woodstock, NY.
With Kyle Gann, composer and author of "No Such Thing as Silence."
Pablo Neruda
PABLO NERUDA, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. his poems and life story is performed by PEDRO SANCHEZ and PEDRO SALAS, piano.
Recorded at the home of LUIS ALBERTO SOTA. Santiago, Chile.
(Taped on January, 9th 2015.)
Edgar Villchur
Edgar Marion Villchur (1917 – 2011) was an American inventor, educator, and writer widely known for his 1954 invention of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker which revolutionized the field of high-fidelity equipment. A speaker Villchur developed, the AR-3, is exhibited at The Smithsonian Institution's Information Age Exhibit in Washington, DC.
Woodstock Artists
Eugene Ludins
Eugene Ludins, (1904-1996)
Interviewed in his studio in 1985.
His representational art is often fantastical and surrealistic.
From 1928 to 1932, he lived and worked in the Maverick Art Colony, in Woodstock. NY.
FULL VIDEO
The Artist:Not a Normal Life
Produced for WMHT-TV, in 1987.
Featuring artists: Eugenie Gershoy and Carole Uehara.
Gershoy, is interviewed at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Carole Uehara, is a Japanese-American artist living and working in Woodstock, who was born in 1941.
FULL VIDEO
https://youtu.be/Lj1GQSlBNJ8?si=FV9Hplz5DoX7N1R6
Andrée Ruellan
Andrée Ruellan (1905 – 2006) was an American artist whose realist work has modernist overtones and commonly depicts everyday scenes in American South and New York City.
In 1929 she and and her husband, the painter John Taylor
settled in Shady, a village near Woodstock, NY.
FULL VIDEO
Grace Bakst Wapner
Grace Bakst Wapner:A Scholar's Garden, was taped on 2009
at Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY.
Grace Bakst Wapner(1934-2025)
FULL VIDEO
Karl Fortess
Karl Fortess, (1907-1993) came to America from Belgium and studied art in Chicago and New York. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him to Alaska to document towns and villages.
Fortess is associated with the Woodstock School artists and was a member of the Woodstock Art Association.
FULL VIDEO
SPAIN
Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
Córdoba, Andalucia. Spain.
REVIEW
A review by Zachary Sklar, Oscar nominated for the script for JFK, with Oliver Stone.