Cyrus Moussavi is an Iranian-American filmmaker and producer of musical artifacts. He is a 2022 Creative Capital Awardee and recipient of the 2022 Points North Fellowship for Somebody’s Gone. His films have screened at Sundance, BAMcinemaFest, Anthology Film Archives, and the Blum & Poe Gallery, LA, among others, and his music-related news documentaries have been published by NBC News, Time, and the Wall Street Journal. Since 2019, he has been owner of Mississippi Records, an independent record label releasing overlooked music.
He works directly with artists and their heirs to equitably reintroduce their work to an international audience. “He played Carnegie Hall and shared a stage with Sam Cooke, but Brother Theotis Taylor never sought fame. His music was spiritual communion, and his sublime falsetto and rolling piano made him the pride of South Georgia’s Black community. His insistence on staying near home made him one of our country’s great unheard artists.
