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Marva Nabili
Marva Nabili (1941) is an Iranian actress and director, known in particular for her first film made in Iran, The Sealed Soil. Upon the restoration of The Sealed Soil’s original negatives by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, international attention was revived. Nabili studied painting in the 1960s at the University of Tehran in Iran, and then film production at the City University of New York and Goddard College in Vermont in the 1970s. During her youth in Iran, Nabili was close to the Iranian New Wave, playing the lead role in the Fereydoun Rahnema film Siavash dar Takht-e Jamshid (Siavash in Persepolis). She is considered one of the three pioneering women filmmakers of feature films in the history of pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema.