Mural Diplomacy for Iran in Israel
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF July 17, 2023
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Program: Mural Diplomacy for Iran in Israel
Speaker: Hooman Khalili
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PROGRAM: Mural Diplomacy for Iran in Israel
SPEAKER: Hooman Khalili
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Hooman Khalili was a morning show radio personality in the San Francisco Bay Area on Alice Radio 97.3 FM (CBS Radio). He has been part of the Sarah and Vinnie morning show for the past 21 years. Hooman’s job at the station encompasses phone screening, movie reviews, and celebrity interviewer for the show. He has interviewed countless celebrities including Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Donald Trump, Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr., Harrison Ford, Jerry Seinfeld, George Lucas, Maroon 5, 50 Cent, and Hooman was the last person to interview Hunter S. Thompson before he died. Hooman’s Red carpet interviews include The Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards, the CBS Fall Television Lineup from 2003 – 2010, the Sundance Film Festival, and Super Bowl 50.
Hooman has collaborated with all the major movie studios on the promotion of over 1000 movies in 20 years. In 2006, Hooman’s voice entertained a new segment of the population as he participated in the Pixar animated movie Cars. In 2008 Hooman created the #1 most-viewed non-partisan video to get the youth of America to vote in the presidential election. The video received 5.1 million views on YouTube and ended up in the Museum of Radio and Television in New York City. In 2011 Hooman shot Olive, the first full-length feature film shot entirely on a cell phone. Olive qualified for the Academy Awards in 2011, and stars two-time Academy Award-nominated Gena Rowlands with five original songs written and performed by Dolly Parton. Hooman has spoken and presented at the Sundance film festival, SXSW, Napa Valley, Sonoma, LA Film Fest, Disposable Film Fest in Washington DC, Macworld, Mill Valley Film Fest, SF Film Fest, and most recently at the Ethiopia Film Festival in September of 2022.
Hooman has done mission work all over the world. In South Africa with Bruce Wilkinson’s team, and independently in Costa Rica, Armenia, Bali, Hong Kong, South Korea, Mexico, Germany, Greece, Uganda, and South Sudan. Hooman's main mission field over the past 20 years has been San Francisco, where he serves the homeless. Hooman was the choir director of St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in San Francisco under Father Gregory Ofiesh. Now, Hooman serves terminally ill children suffering from cancer by creating movies with them in their hospital rooms with the mission of spreading joy and igniting their imaginations.
After using the art form of murals in San Francisco to bring awareness to what is happening in Iran, Hooman was asked by the Vice Mayor of Jerusalem to create a mural to be displayed in Jerusalem. In less than a month, the first mural was unveiled in the Holy Land. As of early May, there are five murals in Israel that have been displayed as part of this project. In this talk, Hooman will discuss the process of making this happen - as well as how many more murals for Iran he will create throughout Israel and the Middle East.
Members and guests, please welcome Hooman Khalili!
To learn more or reach out to Hooman, go to:
Or read a recent story from the Jerusalem Post:
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