Farid Mostafavi ( fa, فرید مصطفوی), born 27 October 1954 in

Tehran, Iran 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 pop ...

is an Iranian screenwriter best known for his social realist films set in urban Tehran, several of which were directed and co-written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.

Education

Mostafavi attended the "Institute of Cinema and Television" in 1979 and studied economics at Tehran University.

Career

His career in

IRIB The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; fa, صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران, ''Sedā va Sīmā-ye Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye Īrān'', , formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian rev ...

began in 1989 and later expanded to film. He has worked as writer and co-producer on "An Outlook to the Cinema", a thirteen-part television program about cinema (1983–1984), as assistant director on "The World Satirist", a ten-part television play (1984–1986), as voice-over writer for documentary films on "Centrality" (directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad) and "Immigrants" (directed by F. Shafaee), and as researcher and screenwriter on "Crossing from Iran Deserts", a documentary/fiction series (1997).

Filmography

* ''Kharej az Mahdudeh'' (1986 - aka Off-Limits) * ''Payizan'' (1987) * ''Rooz-e Bashokouh'' (1989 - aka The Grand Day) * ''Zard-e Qanari'' (1988 - aka Canary Yellow) * ''Pul-e Khareji'' (1989 - aka Foreign Currency) * ''Omid'' (1991) * ''Badal'' (1994 - aka The Stuntman) * ''Roya-ye nime-shab-e tabestan'' (1994 - aka The Midnight Summer's Dream) * '' Zir-e Pust-e Shahr'' (2001 - aka Under the Skin of the City) * '' Zendan-e Zanan'' (2002 - aka Women's Prison) * ''Zahr-e Asal'' (2003 - aka Honey Bane) * ''Gilane'' (2005) * ''Taghato'' (2006 - aka Crossroads) * ''Asr-e Jome'' (2006 - aka Friday Evening) * ''Khunbazi'' (2006 - aka Mainline) * ''Zaadboom'' (2009 - aka Birthplace) * '' Ghesseh-ha'' (2014 - aka Tales) * ''Kafshhaiam Koo?'' (2016 - aka Where Are My Shoes?)

Honors and awards

* Best Screenplay Award, House of Cinema Festival (for ''Women's Prison'') * Best Screenplay Award, House of Cinema Festival (for ''Crossroads'', with Abolhassan Davoudi) * Best Screenplay Award, International Fajr Film Festival (for ''Khunbazi'', with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab and Naghmeh Samini) * Best Screenplay Award, International Fajr Film Festival (for ''Birthplace'', with Abolhassan Davoudi) * Best Screenplay Award, 71st Venice International Film Festival (for '' Tales'', with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mostafavi, Farid Iranian screenwriters University of Tehran alumni People from Tehran 1954 births Living people Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay winners