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List Of Iranian Film Directors
This is a list of Iranian film directors representing various genres and periods of Iranian cinema. A * Narges Abyar *Saber Abar * Ali Abbasi * Mostafa Abdollahi * Mohammad Ahmadi * Mania Akbari * Shahram Alidi * Reza Allamehzadeh * Cyrus Alvand * Mohsen Amiryoussefi * Kiarash Anvari * Abolfazl Attar * Reza Attaran * Kianoush Ayari B * Reza Badiyi * Maziar Bahari * Ramin Bahrani * Parisa Bakhtavar * Rakhshan Bani-E'temad * Bahram Bayzai * Marzieh Boroumand * Shiva Boloorian C * Henri Charr D * Hajir Darioush * Masoud Dehnamaki * Pouran Derakhshandeh E * Nader Ebrahimi * Tanaz Eshaghian * Matt Eskandari F * Mitra Farahani * Asghar Farhadi * Bahman Farmanara * Mohammad Farokhmanesh * Hamid Farrokhnezhad * Forough Farrokhzad * Aryana Farshad * Sepideh Farsi * Hassan Fathi * Reza Fazeli * Sadaf Foroughi G * Kamran Ghadakchian * Iraj Ghaderi * Shahyar Ghanbari * Tina Gharavi * Behrouz Gharibpour * Regis Ghezelbash * Bahman Ghobadi * Fereydun Gole * Ebrahi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Badiyi
Reza Sayed Badiyi (also known as Reza Badiei; Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1930 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-born American film and television director. His credits also include developing the opening montages for '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''Get Smart'', and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. Early life and education Badiyi was born April 17, 1930, in Arak, Pahlavi Iran. His parents were from Isfahan, Iran. He graduated from the Academy of Drama in Iran. He worked with the Audio Visual Department in Tehran, (Honarhayeh Zeeba), and completed 24 documentary films, prior to leaving the country. Badiyi moved to the United States in 1955, in order to continue his film studies at Syracuse University. He was invited by the United States Department of State to continue his studies in America after winning an international film award for ''Flood in Khuzestan''. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in filmmaking. Career Badiyi moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanaz Eshaghian
Tanaz Eshaghian ( fa, طناز اسحاقیان; born 8 September 1974) is an Iranian-born American documentary filmmaker. She resides in New York City. Early life and education Tanaz left Iran with her mother at the age of 6, during the period after the Iranian Revolution. She is both Iranian and Jewish. Eshaghian grew up in New York City, went to Trinity School. She graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a BA degree in semiotics. She has a MA degree in media studies from The New School. Career For her début feature-length film '' Be Like Others'', a provocative look at transgender women in Iran choosing to undergo sex change surgery, she returned to Iran for the first time in 25 years. '' Be Like Others'', a BBC 2, France 5, ITVS production, premiered at the 2008 Sundance film festival and went on to win the Teddy special jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Best Documentary at Noor Iranian Film Festival, as well as the ELSE Siegessaule Reader's Choice Award an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nader Ebrahimi
Nader Ebrahimi ( fa, نادر ابراهیمی; April 3, 1936 – June 5, 2008) was an Iranian writer, screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, songwriter, and an outstanding contemporary novelist. Son to Ata-ol-molk Ebrahimi, who was a descendant of one of the biggest families of Kerman, Nader earned his diploma in Persian literature, and then went on get a license in English literature. He was also affiliated with political activities, which resulted in periods of imprisonment. He worked in various jobs, including teaching and banking. He directed some TV series and documentaries, such as "The Sound of the Desert" but he's best known as a novelist, for "Three looks at the man coming from", "Forty letters to my wife", "A man in everlasting banishment", and "Fire without smoke". He also directed "Hami and Kami on Long Journeys to Their Homeland," a television series that aired on Iranian state television prior to the Islamic Revolution's victory in 1979. Life Nader Ebra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouran Derakhshandeh
Pourān Derakh'shandeh ( fa, پوران درخشنده) (born 27 March 1951 in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher. Career Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School of Television and Cinema (مدرسه عالی تلویزیون و سینما) in Tehran. She started her professional career by making documentary films for the Kermanshah Television and subsequently for the Tehran Television. Her motion pictures include ''Relationship'' (1986), ''A Little Bird of Happiness'' (1987), ''Passing Through the Dust'' (1988), ''Lost Time'' (1989), ''A Love Without Frontier'' (1998), ''Candle in the Wind'' (2003), ''Wet Dream'' (2005), ''Eternal Children'' (2006), and ''Hush! Girls Don't Scream'' (2013). At the time she began working at NIRT and Produced “Plague”; A documentary about plague disease in Kurdistan Province. Next year, she produced a documentary about the "Last Wednesday of the Year" ceremony cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masoud Dehnamaki
Masoud Dehnamaki ( fa, مسعود دهنمکی, born 1969 in Ahar, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian conservative activist, filmmaker, and former journalist. Early life Dehnamaki says that he was a member of the army that liberated Khoramshahr in 1982—a decisive turning point in Iran–Iraq War. Activism Dehnamaki was mostly unknown until he started his activities with Ansar-e Hezbollah. Dehnamaki has been for years the General Commander of the notorious Ansar Hezbollah and a leader of Baseej vigilantes who aggressively attacked conferences and festivals. For years, Massoud Dehnamaki was known widely as the feared enforcer of conservative rules that restricted freedom for women and society. He used to break-up peaceful gatherings, attack speakers, and bring motorcycle vigilantes into streets. Dehnamaki was involved in the Tehran University student riots in July 1999. Several students who were protesting that night the closure of "Salam" and were subsequently beaten up by the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajir Darioush
Hajir Darioush ( fa, هژیر داریوش , , Bandar Pahlavi, Iran – 2 October 1995, Blagnac, France) was an Iranian film maker, described by Javed Jabbar in 1982 as "the leader of the organised progressive Iranian cinema". He took his own life in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France, in 1995. Darioush studied cinema at I.D.H.E.C (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques) later known as École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son in Paris. After graduation, he married Goli Taraghi, a Persian novelist, and the only daughter of a rich journalist. However, the marriage did not last long. His first film "Sacred Arena -- گود مقدس", in 1963, was a documentary about the traditional Persian gymnasium. His second film "Serpent's Skin -- جلد مار", made in 1964 was based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi. It is believed that he started the New Wave of Iranian cinema with this film. He then ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Charr
Henri Charr, also credited as H. Charr, is an Assyrian filmmaker born in Iran and living in Southern California. He started in educational films and documentaries, then turned to mainstream cinema in genres including thrillers, drams, action-adventure, family films and comedies. In the early 1990s Charr made a trilogy of action films: Under Lock and Key, Caged Hearts and Cell Block Sisters. In the mid-1990s Char made family films; My Uncle: The Alien was a Selection at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy, Thriller and Science Fiction Films. He then made Little Heroes, a children's film televised on Animal Planet as the "Movie of the Month". In 2002 Charr produced and directed the Action-Adventure Disaster film Wildfire. He then produced family adventure comedy Abe & Bruno, suspense drama Heart of Fear, and Stepping High. Director, filmography *Please Don't Eat the Babies (1983), aka ''Island Fury'' (USA: video title) *Fatal Encounter (1990) *Illegal Entry: Formula fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiva Boloorian
Shiva Boloorian (; born October 6, 1979) is an Iranian playwright, Actor, actress, and both a Film director, film and theatre director, as well as a television presenter. Career Shiva Boloorian has starred in 21 Movies, 29 TV-series and 32 theatre performances. She has also produced and directed 3 short films and over 10 theatre performances. Film TV series Television Film Theatre Television Play Television Presenter Awards See also * Iranian women * List of famous Persian women * Cinema of Iran *List of Iranian artists *Persian theatre References External links"The statement of the stoned women" on Iranian Theatre Web Site * Official Website since 2001 Iranian television actresses Iranian stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marzieh Boroumand
Marzieh Boroumand ( fa, مرضیه برومند) is an Iranian actress, puppeteer, screenwriter and director of TV series and films. She is best known for Alo!Alo! Man joojoo-am (1994), Barbershop Ziba (1989) and City of Mice (1985). She began her career in cinema by playing in The Cycle directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Films *''The City of Mice 2'' - director, (family film) *''The School of Mice'' - director, (family film) *'' Eve's Red Apple'' - Actor Television *''Hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ... All of My Children - director, Children's TV series. She was born in the city of Tehran, Iran. She has three sisters and two brothers. She believes the main reason that she never got married was that her job always was her priority.'' References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahram Bayzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the son of the poet Ne'matallah Beyzai (best known by his literary pseudonym "Zokā'i"). The celebrated poet Adib Beyzai, known as one of the most profound poets of 20th-century Iran, is Bahram's paternal uncle. Bahram Beyzaie's paternal grandfather, Mirzā Mohammad-Rezā Ārāni ("Ebn Ruh"), and paternal great-grandfather, the mulla Mohammad-Faqih Ārāni ("Ruh'ol-Amin"), were also notable poets. In spite of his somewhat belated start in cinema, Beyzai is often considered a pioneer of a generation of filmmakers whose works are sometimes described as the Iranian New Wave. His ''Bashu, the Little Stranger'' (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine ''Picture World'' poll of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
