The Iranian American Medical Association (IAMA) held its 16th annual meeting in Boston over the Memorial Day weekend. In a special program for this event, Bahman Maghsoudlou appeared as a guest lecturer and screened five short films: The Door by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Footsteps of Water by Alireza Darvish, The Season of Soil by Shahrokh Bahrololoumi, Olympics in the Camp by Majid Majidi and smoQing by Daryush Shokof. All five of these films had been shown at the International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran in New York in 2007.
At the end of the presentation Dr. Gandchi, the president of IAMA, presented a special gift, a designer penholder for his desk, to Dr. Maghsoudlou, “for his establishment of the movie session and editorial commentary at IAMA.”
