One filmmaker is the thorn in an authoritarian state's side--can you guess which one? As everyone knows by now Jafar Panahi was handed down a harsh sentence by the Iranian government. This kind of puts the profession of filmmaker back into perspective, doesn't it? According to Farideh Gheirat, this lawyer, the "Offside" director got six years in jail and will be forbidden to make movies, write scripts or leave the country for the next twenty years. "The sentence is so harsh because the judge said that Panahi had been persistent in his actions," the lawyer said. "It is unacceptable."

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