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Iranian Cinematographers
List of Iranian cinematographers ( fa, فیلمبرداران ایران) * Ovanes Ohanian * Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi * Hossein Jafarian *Amin Jafari *Mehdi Jafari *Peyman Shademanfar *Masud Salami * Mahmoud Kalari * Darius Khondji * Mahmoud Koushan * Firooz Malekzadeh * Amir Mokri * Morteza Poursamadi * Javad Jalali * Aziz Saati * Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi * Found Najafzadeh * Houshanf Banaei * Gholamreza Jannatkhahdoost External links Iranian filmat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Iranian Cinematographers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovanes Ohanian
Ovanes Ohanian ( hy, Հովհաննես Օհանյան, fa, اوانس اوهانیانس; October 1896 – September 1960) was an Armenian-Iranian filmmaker, inventor, founder, doctor, scientist with PhD in medicine, film, science and languages. He established the first film school in the history of Iran. His first film, ''Abi and Rabi'' (1930) was Iran's first feature-length movie. He founded the first acting school in Iran and the first acting school in India together with the first police school in Iran. He was fluent in seven languages. He died of Heart attack in his office in Tehran. The museum in Tehran contains relevant information of his life. Biography Ovanes Ohanian was born in 1896 in Mashhad, Iran, the son of a father named Gregory. He studied film at the Cinema Academy of Moscow and then returned to Iran. In 1924, he went to India to form the first film school in India. After facing many difficulties, he went to Iran in 1930 to form the first film acting and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi
Mirza Ebrahim Khan Rahmani (Akkas Bashi) (1874–1915) was the royal photographer of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, the king of Persia. He brought photography to Persia. He later changed his last name to Mossavar-Rahmani. The first Persian film maker was Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi, the official photographer of the Shah at that time, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. In July 1900, while he visited the Paris Exposition and saw the giant Lumière film exhibit, he recorded in his journal: "They erected a very large screen in the centre of the hall, turned off all electric lights and projected the picture of cinematograph on that large screen. Muzaffar Al-din Shah instructed Akkas Bashi to purchase all kinds of it and to bring it to Tehran so that he can make some there". Court photographer Akkas Bashi duly purchased the necessary equipment for the taking and projecting of film, and just one month later he was taking his first films, of the Festival of Flowers in Belgium, on the Shah's visit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hossein Jafarian
Hossein Jafarian ( fa, حسین جعفریان , born 25 March 1944 in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer. Career Hossein Jafarian is a graduate of the Iran Broadcasting University. He began his career working for Iranian state-run television where he shot over 40 documentaries and TV shows before retiring early soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His feature film debut was with 1984's Tatooreh. But it wasn't until 1992's Nargess that he established himself as a leading cinematographer in Iran. It was with '' Nargess'' that he for the first time captured "real nights" on the Iranian film screen. Jafarian has a distinctive style of his own. His work draws comparisons with the American cinematographer Gordon Willis for his use of darkness and low-key lighting. Many of his films have gone on to win awards at international film festival, including; Abbas Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees, Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold and Asghar Farhadi's ''Fireworks Wednesday'' and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Kalari
Mahmoud Kalari (Persian: محمود کلاری; born in Tehran), is an Iranian cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and photographer, who has worked with number of renowned Iranian directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf. After completing photography courses in the United States, he held his first photo exhibition titled "Visit with People Around Us" at Tehran University in 1976. few years later he became employed by Paris-based Sigma Photo News Agency and worked for them for four years. In 1980 he was ranked one of the '15 Best Photographers of the Year' by Time Magazine, and his photos could be seen in French, German, and American magazines. Kalari moved back to Iran and from 1982 to 1984 worked as the supervisor of the Tehran National TV Photography Unit. Kalari started his film career in 1984 as the cinematographer of Jadehay sard (1985) (Frosty Roads) for which he won the Best Cinematography award at Tehran's Fajr Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Khondji
Darius Khondji ( fa, داریوش خنجی; born 21 October 1955) is an Iranian-French cinematographer. Khondji has worked with a number of high-profile directors, including David Fincher, Woody Allen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Gus Van Sant, Roman Polanski, Wong Kar-wai, Michael Haneke, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Philippe Parreno, Bong Joon-ho, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Pablo Larraín, the Safdie brothers, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and James Gray. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for ''Evita'', and has been nominated for three César Awards. Early life and education Khondji was born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iranian father and a French mother. At an early age, his family relocated in France. He became interested in film early on and made Super-8 films in his teens. Later in life, he moved to the United States to study at UCLA and then majored in film from New York University and the International Center of Photog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Koushan
Mahmoud Koushan (or Mahmoud Kushan) (1932 – 3 February 2021) was one of the pioneer Iranian cinematographers. He was born in Tehran in 1933, and was the brother of filmmaker Esmail Koushan. He was the first Iranian filmmaker who went to Italy and Germany for technical training at Cinecittà Studios, Agfa Laboratories and Arriflex Cameras. He worked as a Lab Technician, Sound Recordist, Editor, Assistant Camera and Gaffer before he shot his first film, ''Amir Arsalan'', as cinematographer in 1955. He directed his first film, ''Nouveau Riche'' in 1961 and was the first to shoot Iranian CinemaScope & color feature films. '' Broken Spell'' (1958) was recognized at the Berlin Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ... for his color cinematography. He won Best C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firooz Malekzadeh
Firooz Malekzadeh ( fa, فیروز ملکزاده) was one of Iran's top cinematographers in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked on over 50 films in Iran with many respected directors including Bahram Beizai, Abbas Kiarostami and Amir Naderi. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised Malekzadeh's work on the 1990 film ''Bashu, the Little Stranger'' as "beautifully photographed;" the Routledge Encyclopedia of Films called ''Bashu'' "a seminal work in the history of post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema." At the 1976 inaugural Cairo International Film Festival, Malekzadeh won a special award, with fellow director of photography Mehrdad Fakhimi, for their film ''Stranger and the Fog'' (1976). Selected filmography * '' Dreams For Life'', 2004 * '' Bashu'', 1989 * '' Khun-bas'', 1992 * '' Davande'', 1985 * '' Madian'', 1986 * '' Golha-ye Davoudi'', 1985 * '' Entezar'', 1974 * '' Gharibe va Meh'', 1974 * ''Mosafer'', 1974 * ''Safar Ṣafar ( ar, صَفَر) also spelt as Safer i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Mokri
Amir M. Mokri ( fa, امیر مکری; born June 11, 1956) is an Iranian-American cinematographer known for his work on Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster Action film, action films such films as ''Bad Boys II'', Fast & Furious (2009 film), ''Fast & Furious'', ''Man of Steel (film), Man of Steel'' and ''Transformers: Age of Extinction,'' collaborating with directors like Michael Bay, Justin Lin, and Zack Snyder. Mokri was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States in 1977. Filmography See also *Iranian cinema *Iranian cinematographers References External links * * 1956 births AFI Conservatory alumni Emerson College alumni Iranian cinematographers Living people Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian diaspora film people {{Cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morteza Poursamadi
Morteza Poursamadi (born 1952 in Iran) is an Iranian cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch .... References External links * Iranian cinematographers 1952 births Living people Iranian photographers {{Iran-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javad Jalali
Javad Jalali ( fa, جواد جلالی ) (born 30 May 1977 in Mashhad) is a photographer and a member of the Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds. His photograph of the movie '' Farewell Baghdad'' is now kept in the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran, Iran. He also holds the record for a photograph sold for the highest amount at a photography expo in Iran (800,000,000 rials). Jalali is known for his photography of refugees and immigrants of Afghanistan and Kurdistan in Iraq (2008, 2011), mysticism in Iranian architecture (2001), traditional Iranian kilns (2004, 2008, 2011), mentally and physically ill patients (2003, 2004), abstract photography of horses and trees and still photography of films. His photographs have been published in ''Variety'' (2012), ''Real Time Arts'' (Australia) (2011), '' L'Uomo Vogue'' (2011), ''D Photo Journal'' (Australia) (2010, 2011), ''Vogue'' (Italy) (2010), MyFDB (Italy) (2010), ''Paradise Magazine'' (2010), ''Film International'' (2010), "World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Saati
Aziz Sa'ati, ( fa, عزیز ساعتی), born in Tehran in 1948, Sa'ati graduated from the School-of Television and Cinema with a specialty in cinematography and videography. After teaching courses on photography and laboratory work at the School, he began his professional career as a still photographer on the set of Bahram Beizai's ''THE CROW''. Sa'ati brought a new seriousness and artistic capability to the job of set photographer, and he is noted for upgrading the standards of that position. He worked as set photographer for many of Iran's best known directors. His set photographs have won many awards and been featured in major exhibitions. Work Sa'ati's work as a photographer, cinematographer, and director includes: Still photographer *1976 - The Crow, The Night Never End. *1977 - Tall Shadows of the Wind, Samad Goes to the Town. *1979 - The Ballade of Tara. *1982 - Death of Yazdgerd, The Red Line. *1984 - Kamal-ol-molk. 1987 - Silk and Blade, The Peddler «award winner f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi
Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi ( fa, میرزا ابراهیم خان صحافباشی; c. 1855–1922) was a pioneering Iranian photographer and cinematographer. In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in Tehran. He was also the man who opened the first "Hamām-e nomré" (a kind of public shower with separate bathrooms) in Iran. (''History of Iran's Cinema'', by Jamal Omid. In Abolqasem Rezaee's quotes about his father, Mirza Ebrahim.) See also *Persian cinema Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi ( fa, میرزا ابراهیم خان صحافباشی; c. 1855–1922) was a pioneering Iranian photographer and cinematographer. In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in Tehran ... Year of birth uncertain 1922 deaths {{cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
