[5] Ghaemmaghami currently lives in the United States, but has traveled to show Sonita at film festivals across the world.

[9][10] She directed a short, animated documentary during her research in 2007 called Cyanosis, which showed the work of a Tehran street artist.

[11] Ghaemmaghami's documentary Going Up the Stairs tells the story of an illiterate Iranian woman who discovers her painting talent late in life.

[1] “Making "Sonita" was a journey into the depths of society to understand poverty, immigration, war, identity, sexism, tradition and human values versus filmmaking conventions,” Ghaemmaghami told Women and Hollywood.

The Hollywood Reporter says: “Ghaem Maghami's camera is never any kind of fly on the wall, and the voluble Sonita's chattily informal relationship with the older director … is clearly a crucial element in her personal development into the super-confident, irrepressible young woman she becomes.”[19] Ghaemmaghami describes the main theme of her documentaries as “outsider art.”[8] When the audience leaves the theater, Ghaemmaghami told Women and Hollywood, “I want them to think about small changes they can make happen.”[3] Cyanosis, Documentary with animation, 32 Min., Iran, 2007