“Know Your Place”, winner of New American Cinema Grand Jury Award and the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival (1 hour 58 min)

Meet Director Zia Mohajerjasbi after the film and engage in the conversation. Organized by NOMAS UW i(UW Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students and a registered student organization at UW)

“Know Your Place is a slice-of-life drama set in present-day Seattle. Robel Haile (15, Eritrean-American) and his best friend Fahmi Tadesse (15, Ethiopian-American) embark on a journey to drop off a suitcase with medicine and cash to a friend traveling back to Eritrea because of a family member’s sudden illness. An unexpected turn transmutes Robel’s simple errand into an odyssey across the rapidly gentrifying city, navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self-identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and displacement of the only community he’s ever known as home. Zia Mohajerjasbi’s debut feature presents a drama that feels both universal thematically and unmistakably specific to the experiences of Eritrean- and Ethiopian-Americans in our city. With an exemplary cast of first-time actors from South Seattle, Know Your Place poetically presents a community that has turned the camera lens upon itself, collaborating to bring a story of home to life in a way that honors the shared space of our city and the nuance of the individual experiences contained within it.”-by SIFF

University of Washington Seattle, Architecture Hall, Room 147 

3943 W Stevens Wy NE, Seattle, WA 98195

Doors at 5:30pm, Film at 6:00pm, Post Screening Q&A with Writer/Director Zia Mohajerjasbi

Student Tickets: $5 for UW Students/Staff ($10 with food - reception to follow upstairs) Student Only Ticket Link: https://tinyurl.com/bde5pe3v

General Public Tickets: $15 ($25 with food - reception to follow upstairs)  Ticket Link: https://tinyurl.com/y5xc4m4j

Peyvand nonprofit organization in collaboration with director Zia Mohajerjasbi proudly promotes the film among refugee and immigrant communities as part of its Youth Empowerment and Family Empowerment programs.

Writer, Director, Producer Zia Mohajerjasbi is an Iranian American filmmaker from Seattle, a city that has served as the primary focus of his work. He has directed acclaimed music videos for Macklemore, Blue Scholars, Jake One and Common Market, as well as a 2007 mockumentary short with standup comedian Hari Kondabolu, “Manoj.” In 2009, Zia became the youngest winner ever of the “Genius Award,” presented by The Stranger, a Seattle weekly. In 2015, he wrote and directed the award-winning narrative short “Hagereseb,” and is also the cinematographer and director of an ongoing storytelling series, “The Charcoal Sky.” “Know Your Place,” which Zia wrote and directed, was shot on location in Seattle and is his debut feature film