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Vida Ghahremani
Vida Ghahremani ( fa, ویدا قهرمانى; 12 June 1936 – 1 June 2018) was an Iranian-born American film and stage actress, writer, and educator. Early life and education Vida Ghahremani was born 12 June 1936 in Tehran. She began acting in films as a teenager, under the mentorship and influence of Khan Baba Motazedi. Her earliest work was in 1955 in Crossroad of Events (); followed by a 1958 film called Storm in Our Time (). She was known for the first romantic kiss to be portrayed in Iranian cinema, when she played opposite to Naser Malek Motiei in Crossroad of Events (1955). She was just a teenager around 16 or 17 years old during the filming of the first kiss. and as a result she was expelled from Shahdokht High School during her final year. After receiving her degree in Early Childhood Development, she worked at Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Tehran. In the 1960s, Ghahremani and her husband David Yeghiazarian opened the in Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Baba Motazedi
Khan Baba Motazedi ( fa, خانبابا معتضدی) (1892– 1986) also known as Khan Baba Khan Motazedi, was an Iranian pioneer within the field of Iranian cinema and motion picture photography. He was the third cinematographer in the country and made some of the earliest documentary films, primarily focused on the Qajar dynasty and silent film news footage. Biography Khan Baba Motazedi was born in 1892 in Tabriz, Qajar Iran (now Iran). Motazedi, during the reign of Persia's Ahmad Shah Qajar, at 17 years of age, traveled from Iran to Lausanne, Switzerland to study French and English language, and he traveled to Paris two years later, to study electromechanical engineering. While living in France, he worked for the Gaumont Film Company as a cinematographer. Motazedi returned to Iran after the 1921 Persian coup d'état with a Gamun, a type of Gaumont brand camera, as well as a projection projector, and a collection of French films, and began making documentaries in his hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to create SAG-AFTRA. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild sought to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; collect compensation for exploitation of recorded performances by its members, and provide protection against unauthorized use of those performances; and preserve and expand work opportunities for its members. The Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate what was described as exploitation of Hollywood actors who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios. Opposition to these cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maz Jobrani
Maziyar Jobrani ( fa, مازیار جبرانی; born February 26, 1972) is an American comedian and actor who was part of the "Axis of Evil" comedy group. The group appeared on a comedy special on Comedy Central. Jobrani has also appeared in numerous films, television shows, including ''Better Off Ted'', on radio, and in comedy clubs. His filmography includes roles in ''The Interpreter'', ''Friday After Next'', ''Dragonfly'', and '' Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero''. He appeared as a regular character on the 2017 CBS sitcom '' Superior Donuts''. He had been an advisory board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Early life and education Jobrani was born in Tehran, Iran. He and his parents moved to California when he was six years old.Maz Jobrani Comedy Central Special He was raised in Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, and was inducted into the Redwood distinguished alumni class of 2017. Jobrani studied politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kesselman
Jonathan Kesselman (born 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, who first gained notice as the writer and director of ''The Hebrew Hammer'' (2003). Early life Kesselman grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in psychology, and then spent a few years working as an information systems consultant. He studied film at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, graduating in 2001 with a master's degree in film production. Career ''The Hebrew Hammer'' While at USC, Kesselman wrote and directed a short film version of ''The Hebrew Hammer'', which screened at the 2000 Austin Film Festival. In 2001, ContentFilm offered to finance a feature film version, with Edward R. Pressman and John Schmidt on board as executive producers. Kesselman wrote and directed ''The Hebrew Hammer'', a "Jewxploitation" send-up of Blaxploitation and superhero films, starring Adam Goldberg as Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoning Of Soraya M
, image = The Stoning of Soraya M. US Poster.jpg , alt = , caption = U.S. theatrical release poster , director = Cyrus Nowrasteh , producer = Stephen McEveety John ShepherdTodd BurnsDiane Hendricks , writer = Betsy Giffen NowrastehCyrus Nowrasteh , based_on = , starring = Mozhan MarnòShohreh AghdashlooJim CaviezelParviz SayyadVida GhahremaniNavid Negahban , music = John Debney , cinematography = Joel Ransom , editing = David HandmanGeoffrey Rowland , studio = Mpower Pictures , distributor = Roadside Attractions , released = , runtime = 116 minutes , country = United States , language = PersianEnglish , budget = , gross = $1.1 million ''The Stoning of Soraya M.'' ( fa, .سنگسار ثريا م, Sangsār-e Sorayā M.) is a 2009 Persian-language American drama film adapted from French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's 1990 boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
''A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'' is a 2007 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff. It is adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.− It was made as a companion piece to ''The Princess of Nebraska'', a 2007 film also directed by Wayne Wang and adapted from Yiyun Li’s short story. Plot The film follows Mr. Shi (Henry O), a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan (Faye Yu), who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man (Pasha D. Lychnikoff) and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vigen (singer)
Viguen (born Viguen Derderian, fa, ویگن دردریان, ''Viguen Derderyân''; hy, Վիգէն Տէրտէրեան, ''Vigen Tērtērian''; 23 November 1929 – 26 October 2003), known as "King of Iranian pop" and the "Sultan of Jazz", was an Iranian pop music singer and actor, well known throughout the Near East. Viguen sang both in Persian and Armenian. Viguen was of Iranian-Armenian ethnicity and during the golden age of Persian pop (the early 1970s) until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, many Iranian performers and celebrities—among them Delkash, Pouran, and Elaheh—yearned to be associated with him. Viguen's innovative and upbeat style of music had a great influence on paving the way for a new genre of Iranian music, influenced by Western European and Latin American styles. His musical and performing talents soon captured the attention of many prominent Iranian lyricists and composers such as Parveez Vakili and Kareem Fakkour, and together they created some of Iran's mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire And Ashes (film)
''Fire and Ashes'' (Persian: آتش و خاكستر; ''Atash va khakestar'') is a 1961 Iranian film directed by Khosrow Parvizi. The film featured leading romantic couple the popular Armenian-Persian singer Vigen and actress Vida Ghahremani Vida Ghahremani ( fa, ویدا قهرمانى; 12 June 1936 – 1 June 2018) was an Iranian-born American film and stage actress, writer, and educator. Early life and education Vida Ghahremani was born 12 June 1936 in Tehran. She began acting i ....Bahman Maghsoudlou ''Iranian cinema'' 1987 p.97 "ATASH VA KHAKESTAR (Fire and Ashes) S/D: Khosrow Parvizi"(based 97. References External links * Iranian romantic drama films 1961 films {{Iran-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Khachikian
Samuel Khachikian ( hy, Սամուէլ Խաչիկեան ; fa, ساموئل خاچیکیان; October 21, 1923 – October 22, 2001) was an Demographics of Iran, Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenians, Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures of Cinema of Iran, Iranian cinema and was nicknamed "Iran's Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock". Biography Born 1923 in Tabriz to a family of Armenians, Armenian immigrants. Khachikian's father escaped the Armenian genocide in 1915 and settled in Tabriz. His mother admired cinema and the arts and often took her children to the theater. Samuel Khachikian published his first poem "The Prison" in the Armenian newspaper Alik (daily), Alik when he was nine. Five years later, he gave his first stage performance in Tabriz in a play titled "Seville". He completed his education in History and Journalism, and wrote eight plays which went on stage not only in different cities of Iran, but also in Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQED Inc
KQED may refer to: * KQED (TV), a PBS member station in San Francisco * KQED-FM KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a NPR-member radio station in San Francisco, California. Its parent organization is KQED Inc., which also owns its television partners, both of which are PBS member outlets: KQED (channel 9) and KQEH (channel 54). Stu ..., an NPR member station in San Francisco * KQED Inc., the parent organization of KQED (TV) and KQED-FM {{Call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
