Ultimate Citizens Screening @ Seattle International Film Festival

• Nation: Iran

• Director: Francine Strickwerda, Flock This Way Films

• Year: 2024

• Subject: Jamshid Khajavi, Ultimate Frisbee

• Filmed at Seattle’s Hazel Wolf K-8 school, this doc introduces Jamshid Khajavi, an Iranian American immigrant, school counselor, chicken rescuer, and Ultimate Frisbee coach tirelessly devoted to the city’s immigrant kids.

• Showings:

• Sunday, May 12th @ 12:30pm / Uptown

• Tuesday, May 14th @ 4:00pm / Uptown

• Runtime: 40 minutes

Jamshid, an Iranian American primary school counselor and ultra-endurance athlete, builds a world-class Ultimate Frisbee team from the immigrant and refugee students arriving each year at his inner-city public school in Seattle. In a divided country, in one of the nation’s most expensive cities, this funny, fiery 65-year-old man proves that love wins. As the newcomer families struggle to make a home in a strange land, Jamshid guides students coping with grief and loss, and teaches conflict resolution and sex education in the classroom. ULTIMATE CITIZENS is a portrait of an extraordinary man who heals from his own losses through helping, as well as swimming ultra-endurance races, and rescuing nuisance roosters at his home in Seattle. ULTIMATE CITIZENS is the third feature documentary by award-winning filmmaker Francine Strickwerda.