Shoja Azari is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City, known for Women Without Men (2009 film) (2009), Windows (2006) and K (2002 film) (2002) based on 3 of Franz Kafka's short stories ("The Married Couple," "In the Penal Colony" and "A Fratricide").Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran, trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran for the Revolution in 1979.