International Competition

Documentary Films

Letters to the President

Canada
2009, 72min.

Prod./Script/ Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Sound/Edit.: Petr Lom.
Exclusive access documentary about President Ahmadinejad and his populism. As part of his populism, the President has set up the Presidential Letter writing center, which has received over 10 million letters from ordinary Iranians. The film uses these letters as its narrative thread.

Production Company
Lomfilms
32 antinoros street, Athens, Greece, 11634
E-mail: petr@lomfilms.com

Lom, Petr

Petr Lom (born 1968, Prague, The Czech Republic)
He grew up in Canada and received his Ph. D. in political philosophy from Harvard University in 1997. He gave up his career in the University in 2004 to pursue a full-time career as a documentary filmmaker.

Filmography
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004), On a Tightrope (2006), Letters to the President (2009).