After a new U.S. travel ban on Iran takes effect, an Iranian woman, Raha, rushes to save her parents’ U.S. visa appointment while visiting her wedding venue at Untermyer Garden in the Hudson Valley.
A short film · Written & directed by Hanieh Karimi
We shot the film. Now we need your help to finish it.
Heaven Will Wait is in post-production, and every gift is a tax-deductible donation.
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The film is shot. What's left is everything that turns footage into a finished film that can travel to festivals and reach audiences. Every dollar raised goes directly toward finishing it, and every gift is a tax-deductible donation to Fractured Atlas for the charitable purposes of Heaven Will Wait.
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What your support finishes
Editing
Sound design & mix
Original score
Color
Festival fees
Final deliverables
Why this story
This is the story of so many people who are successful, and will be, but nobody sees how every year, every six months, they have to gather their papers and start proving all over again that they have a right to exist. Their success, their happiness, their heaven still depends on a stack of paperwork. I think it's the most subtle kind of pain, the kind where you slowly lose hope as time goes by.
For me, this film holds all the birthdays I'm missing, the fights and the laughs I'm not there for, and all the hands I can't hold as my parents get older. This is the story I need to tell now, before more of those moments disappear. -Hanieh
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