Montclair Film Fest Screens 'The Iran Job' Tuesday

A free screening of "The Iran Job" will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Montclair State University. 

The screening of this internationally-praised documentary follows the story of Kevin Sheppard, an American athlete who travels to Iran to play professional basketball.  

The university is teaming up with Montcliar Film Festival to show the film in University Hall, located at 1 Normal Ave. 

Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi will be available for a Q&A after the screening. 

According to Montclair State's website, the film is described as follows: 

"The Iran Job" follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran.With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran.Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iranian women. Thanks to these women, his apartment turns into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles.Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring. The directors will attend.

You can watch the trailer for the film at http://www.theiranjob.com.

For more information on "The Iran Job" go to http://www.theiranjob.com/.