I may not have been the biggest fan of Kari Skogland’s 50 Dead Men Walking (our review) and though I was in the minority, I stand by my initial thoughts that the film was simply too scattered to be truly great. That said, I still have quite a bit of admiration for the director who is working out of two minority groups in Hollywood: she’s a female director and she’s Canadian.

Skogland did get a bit of international attention for the Irish drama but I’m happy to see that her next project is another Canadian production, and yet again, she’s defying expectations. THR reports that Skogland has signed on to direct Prisoner of Tehran, a film based on a 2007 best selling memoir about a “16-year-old Christian girl forced in 1982 to convert to Islam and marry a prison guard who rescued her from an Iranian firing squad.”

This sounds like an apt project for Skogland who is returning to her roots in a more subdued drama. It’s not clear how much the story will focus on the Islamic revolution which preceded this event but I expect we may also get another glimpse of Skogland in action mode. I’m hopeful that at some point, she’ll find the perfect balance for the two much as Kathryn Bigelow has.