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• Mohammad Ahmadi
  Mohammad Ahmadi
  -Awards:*Gold plate and honorary diploma for best dialogue from the fourth Kish Festival, 2002*Honorary diploma for best dialogue from the ninth Holy defense festival, Mashhad, 2002...
  
  
• Shahram Alidi
  Shahram Alidi
  Shahram Alidi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is also a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Alidi is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and...
  
  
• Reza Allamehzadeh
  Reza Allamehzadeh
  Reza Allamehzadeh is a Persian-born Dutch film-maker, film critic and writer who lives in the Netherlands. He is mostly famous because of his films about refugees, such as The Guests of Hotel Astoria , and the documentary Holy Crime , which is about the murder of opposition figures in Europe by...
  
  
• Cyrus Alvand
  Cyrus Alvand
  Sirus Alvand Sirus Alvand Sirus Alvand (also spelled Cyrous Alvand (in Persian: سیروس الوند) is a director and screenwriter who was born in 1950 in Tehran, Iran. He began his career as film critic and screenwriter and directed his debut film Sanjar in 1971. He’s among few filmmakers of...
  
  
• Mohsen Amiryoussefi
  Mohsen Amiryoussefi
  Mohsen Amiryoussefi is a critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter.He belongs to the third generation of Iranian "New wave".-Notes:...
  
  
• Kiarash Anvari
  Kiarash Anvari
  Kiarash Anvari is an Iranian film maker, video artist and script writer.Anvari received his BA in film making from Sooreh Higher Education Institute in Tehran. In 1998 he got a role in Eugene O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape, which was the beginning of his experiences as an actor...
  
  
• Abolfazl Attar
  Abolfazl Attar
  Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z ' Born September 23, 1968 in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran is an Iranian Film director, Screenwriter & Film editor -Early life:...
  
  
• Reza Attaran
  Reza Attaran
  Reza Attaran is an Iranian actor and director. He has played in both films and television shows. Attaran won the Best Actor award at the 2008 Gol Aga Comedy Film Festival.-TV Shows:-Films:-External links:...
  
  

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• Reza Badiyi
  Reza Badiyi
  Reza Sayed Badiyi was an Iranian-American film director. Badiyi was well known for directing episodes of many popular television series...
  
  
• Maziar Bahari
  Maziar Bahari
  Maziar Bahari Maziar Bahari Maziar Bahari (مازیار بهاری, (born 1967) is an Iranian Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011...
  
  
• Ramin Bahrani
  Ramin Bahrani
  Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the decade and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of...
  
  
• Shahriar Bahrani
  Shahriar Bahrani
  Iranian film director, Shahriar Bahrani -Selected filmography:* 2009: The Kingdom of Solomon* 2000: Saint Mary* 1997: Inverted world* 1993: The Attack to H-3* 1989: Not to mud water!...-References:...
  
  
• Parisa Bakhtavar
  Parisa Bakhtavar
  Parisa Bakhtavar is an Iranian film and television director. She is married to another Iranian film director, Asghar Farhadi. She is famous for her television series, Posht-e Konkooriha, which followed the lives of high school seniors studying for their college entrance exams. Her first film,...
  
  
• Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
• Hassan Barzideh
• Feryal Behzad
  Feryal Behzad
  Feryal Behzad is an Iranian film director.She graduated from the IRIB Faculty and also studied film production in Boston University.-Selected filmography:* Kakoli, 1989* The Valley of Butterflies, 1991* Passion of Life, 1998-References:*...
  
  
• Bahram Bayzai
  Bahram Bayzai
  Bahrām Beyzāi is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher....
  
  
• Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian is an Iranian actress and stage director, as well as a TV moderator.-Works:Boloorian has starred in more than 10 movies, over 25 TV series and over 30 theatre performances in Iran, and has produced 3 short films and over 10 theatre performances.- Film :Zendegie Torsh Tabe Penhani...
  
  

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• Mitra Farahani
  Mitra Farahani
  Mitra Farahani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and painter who lives in Paris.She was arrested on June 17, 2009 by the Iranian government, on her arrival in Tehran from Paris and held in Evin prison...
  
  
• Asghar Farhadi
  Asghar Farhadi
  -Career:Asghar Farhadi is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in Isfahan branch of Iranian Young Cinema Society before moving on to writing plays and screenplays for...
  
  
• Bahman Farmanara
  Bahman Farmanara
  Bahman Farmanara is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later on to US to...
  
  
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh
  Mohammad Farokhmanesh
  Mohammad Farokhmanesh is a Gerd Ruge-Prize winning Iranian film director, scriptwriter and producer, residing in Germany.-Career:...
  
  
• Hamid Farrokhnezhad
  Hamid Farrokhnezhad
  Hamid Farrokhnezhad is an Iranian actor, writer and director. He graduated from the Theatre Director program in Tehran University's Fine Arts Department...
  
  
• Forough Farrokhzad
  Forough Farrokhzad
  Forugh Farrokhzād was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Aryana Farshad
  Aryana Farshad
  Aryana Farshad is a writer, director, and film producer born in Tehran, Iran.-Education and career:She moved to Paris, France and studied French language and literature at The Sorbonne, prior to receiving her degree from the Institut Des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in film production and...
  
  
• Sepideh Farsi
  Sepideh Farsi
  Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.-Early years:Farsi left Iran in 1980 and went to Paris in 1984 to study mathematics. However, eventually she was drawn to the visual arts and initially experimented in photography before making her first short films. A main theme of...
  
  
• Hassan Fathi
  Hassan Fathi
  Hassan Fathi is an Iranian film and TV series director.-Filmography :* Pahlevanan Nemimirand - * Shabe Dahom - * Roshantar Az Khamooshi -...
  
  
• Reza Fayazi
  Reza Fayazi
  Reza Fayazi , director, actor, born in 1953, Ahvaz, Iran. Graduated in theater from FFATU.- Selected filmography :* Ballad of Tara, 1978* Statue, 1992* The Blue-Veiled, 1994* Chariot of Death, 1996* Starry Sky, 1999...
  
  
• Reza Fazeli
  Reza Fazeli
  Reza Fazeli , Iranian actor, film director and leading opposition figure.After a period of one year in the Imperial Iranian Air Force he left the country in 1953. In the following years he was in the area of the Persian Gulf as well as in Lebanon and Egypt and finally passed eight years in France,...
  
  
• Fereydun Gole
  Fereydun Gole
  Fereydun Gole was an Iranian screenwriter, film director, and film editor. He was active in producing urban drama films throughout the 1970s, dealing with such issues as the social stratification of Tehran. His most famous film was Beehive...
  
  
• Sadaf Foroughi
  Sadaf Foroughi
  Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian film maker, video artist and film editor.Foroughi has a bachelor degree in French literature. After receiving her master degree in film studies from University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France, she continued her studies on PHD in film philosophy. She also...
  
  

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• Kamran Ghadakchian
  Kamran Ghadakchian
  Kamran Ghadakchian is a film director and editor. He is the son of actor Ahmad Ghadakchian.-External links:...
  
  
• Iraj Ghaderi
  Iraj Ghaderi
  Iradj Ghaderi is an Iranian director and actor.- Director :* I Want to Live * Sam and Narges * Aquarium * Pato zamin nazar -External links:...
  
  
• Shahyar Ghanbari
  Shahyar Ghanbari
  Shahyar Ghanbari is an Iranian lyricist, songwriter and singer of Persian pop music.Shahyar is the son of Hamid Ghanbari; Iranian actor, dubber and singer. He writes and sings in Persian, English and French...
  
  
• Tina Gharavi
  Tina Gharavi
  Tina Gharavi is an Iranian/American filmmaker and screenwriter. Gharavi, is known for making innovative films about outsiders, outcasts and marginalised people in extraordinary situations. Best known for her work on diversity, her subjects include migration, terrorism-related discrimination,...
  
  
• Behrouz Gharibpour
  Behrouz Gharibpour
  Behrouz Gharibpour is a renowned Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre.He studied theatre at Tehran University and at Dramatic Arts Academy in Rome . He founded Tehran and Esfahan puppet theatre centres and changed the Tehran’s slaughterhouse into the greatest...
  
  
• Regis Ghezelbash
  Regis Ghezelbash
  Regis Ghezelbash is a Paris-based documentary creator, a feature film animator and live action director and producer. He is a graduate of University of Grenoble, and its school of Audio Visual Communication Science....
  
  
• Bahman Ghobadi
  Bahman Ghobadi
  Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gholamhussein Lotfi
  Gholamhussein Lotfi
  Gholamhussein Lotfi is a Persian actor, film director and screenwriter.He received an M.A. degree in acting and a doctorate in theater...
  
  
• Ebrahim Golestan
  Ebrahim Golestan
  Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century...
  
  
• Akbar Golrang
  Akbar Golrang
  Akbar Golrang, born April 12, 1945, is an Iranian author and film director. He was born in Abadan and has directed over 20 films. In 1972 qualified as Film Director from The London Film School. 1976 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Lund University in Sweden...
  
  

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• Mani Haghighi
  Mani Haghighi
  Mani Haghighi is an Iranian filmmaker, screen writer and actor. He is the grandson of the writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan.-Education:...
  
  
• Ali Hatami
  Ali Hatami
  Ali Hatami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, art Director and costume designer.-Background:Graduated in cinema from Faculty of Dramatic Arts, his debut was Hasan Kachal , the first Iranian musical film...
  
  
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
  Ebrahim Hatamikia
  -Biography:Ebrahim Hatamikia, who is internationally renowned for his role in the cinema of Iran in the 1990s, was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He left the Art University where he studied script writing. He began his directing career with the film "The Identity" in 1986 and some short films and...
  
  
• Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. Born in 1962 in Arāk, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women's Prison in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has...
  
  
• Mohammad-Reza Honarmand
• Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
  
  
• Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
  Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
  Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour is an Iranian cartoonist and art director.He holds a bachelor of painting from the Azad University of Tehran.cartoonist and caricaturist of the press since 1990“Golagha magazines”,”Kyhan caricature monthly”,...
  
  

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• Abdolreza Kahani
  Abdolreza Kahani
  Abdolreza Kahani is an Iranian filmmaker.In 2009, Kahani's film Twenty won the Special Jury Prize and the Prize of Ecumenical Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival...
  
  
• Fariborz Kamkari
  Fariborz Kamkari
  Fariborz Kamkari is a Kurdish Iranian film director and producer.Kamkari was born in 1981 in Rome, Italy, and studied cinema and theater in Tehran, Iran. He has written several scripts for other Iranian directors, and has produced and directed some short films. In 2002, he wrote and directed his...
  
  
• Cyrus Kar
  Cyrus Kar
  Cyrus Kar is an Iranian-born American film director, part-time professor at the University of Phoenix, and now-vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May 17,...
  
  
• Varuzh Karim-Masihi
  Varuzh Karim-Masihi
  Varuzh Karim-Masihi is an Iranian - Armenian film director, film editor and screenplay writer.-Filmography:As director:*Parde-ye Akhar *Tardid As editor:*Tardid*SaraAs writer:*Tardid*Parde-ye Akhar...
  
  
• Niki Karimi
  Niki Karimi
  Niki Karimi , born 10 November 1971 in Tehran, is a multi-award–winning Iranian actress and movie director.- Biography :Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran. She participated in theatrical work while she was in elementary school. Her hobby of reading and watching movies from an early age...
  
  
• Nosrat Karimi
  Nosrat Karimi
  Nosrat'Allah Karimi is an award winning Iranian actor, director, make-up artist, University professor, scriptwriter and sculptor. His career spans 6 decades. He is best known for his role as Agha Joon in My Uncle Napoleon and The Carriage Driver....
  
  
• Maryam Keshavarz
  Maryam Keshavarz
  Maryam Keshavarz is Iranian-American filmmaker.Keshavarz studied Persian literature at the University of Shiraz before turning to filmmaking. She has a B.A...
  
  
• Samuel Khachikian
  Samuel Khachikian
  Samuel Khachikian was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures in Iran's movie industry and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock"....
  
  
• Valiollah Khakdan
• Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
  
• Bahman Kiarostami
  Bahman Kiarostami
  Bahman Kiarostami is an Iranian film director, cinematographer, film editor, film producer and translator, son of the critically acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami....
  
  
• Masoud Kimiai
  Masoud Kimiai
  Masoud Kimiai is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1941 in Tehran, Iran.- Biography :Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Kaiser , he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film Cow, caused a...
  
  
• Parviz Kimiavi
  Parviz Kimiavi
  Parviz Kimiavi is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, editor and one of the most prominent figures of Persian cinema of the 20th century....
  
  
• Alexis Kouros
  Alexis Kouros
  Alexis Kouros is a Iranian-Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director and producer.His first book, Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997...
  
  
• Esmail Koushan
  Esmail Koushan
  Esmail Koushan or Kooshan is a one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul....
  
  

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• Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hana Makhmalbaf
  Hana Makhmalbaf
  Hana Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Marzieh Makhmalbaf.-Career:...
  
  
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...
  
  
• Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...
  
  
• Yassamin Maleknasr
  Yassamin Maleknasr
  Yassamin Maleknasr is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and actress.-Career:...
  
  
• Mania Akbari
  Mania Akbari
  Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary...
  
  
• Asghar Massombagi
  Asghar Massombagi
  Asghar Massombagi is a film director who was born and raised in Tehran. He immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1986. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with two majors in film and computer sciences. He has produced three short films, Feel Like Chicken Tonight, The Miracle and Rose....
  
  
• Dariush Mehrjui
• Marzieh Meshkini
  Marzieh Meshkini
  Marzieh Meshkini is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer. She is married to film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf who wrote the script for her début film The Day I Became a Woman.-Honors and awards:...
  
  
• Tahmineh Milani
  Tahmineh Milani
  Tahmineh Milāni is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Early life:Milani was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. Of Azeri descent, she is the wife of the Iranian actor and producer Mohammad Nikbin.- Early career :...
  
  
• Maziar Miri
  Maziar Miri
  Maziar Miri is a renowned Iranian filmmaker.Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing department of Iranian TV, channel 2. He made his debut feature film in 2000...
  
  
• Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri in Tehran, Iran) is a prolific Iranian actor, television director and musician. His artistic career began in his teenage years as he was acting in local plays...
  
  
• Granaz Moussavi
  Granaz Moussavi
  Granaz Moussavi , is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet, film director and screen writer. She is primarily renowned for her avant-garde poetry in the 90's...
  
  
• Mohammad Nourizad
  Mohammad Nourizad
  Mohammad Nourizad, born 10 December 1952 in Shahriar County is an Iranian filmmaker, activist, and former journalist for the conservative daily Kayhan...
  
  
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
  Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
  Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh is an Iranian composer and Director. He was born in 1940 in Tehran to a Muslim father and Jewish Mother. His major works are Gheisar, Dash Akol, Tangna, Gavaznha...
  
  
• Ali Mosaffa
  Ali Mosaffa
  -Career:He has played in movies such as Pari , Leila , and Borj-e Minoo and a TV series, Keef-e Englisi . In 2005, he directed his first film called Sima-ye zani dar doordast ....
  
  
• Bahman Motamedian
  Bahman Motamedian
  Bahman Motamedian is an Iranian film maker, photographer, writer and script writer. He was born in Tehran, Iran. Motamedian belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema....
  
  
• Duraid Munajim
  Duraid Munajim
  Duraid Munajim is a Toronto-based film director and a freelance cinematographer.- Career :Born in Kuwait in 1972 to an Iraqi father and Iranian mother, Duraid was 17 years of age when his family immigrated to Canada...
  
  

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• Nader Ebrahimi
  Nader Ebrahimi
  Nader Ebrahimi was an Iranian writer, screenwriter, photographer, director and actor.He was born in 1936 in Tehran....
  
  
• Amir Naderi
  Amir Naderi
  Amir Naderi is a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema. Mr Naderi is currently in Japan working on CUT, his new feature film, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Takako Tokiwa, due to be released in 2011.Naderi developed his...
  
  
• Narges Kalhor
  Narges Kalhor
  Narges Kalhor is an Iranian film director. She is the daughter of Mehdi Kalhor, the media and cultural advisor to President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
  
  
• Shirin Neshat
  Shirin Neshat
  Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...
  
  
• Parviz Nouri
  Parviz Nouri
  Parviz Nouri is an Iranian movie critic, screen writer, and director who has been involved in production of over 20 movies and television shows. He currently resides in the United States and lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife Soraya Shivai.-Early Life & Education:Parviz Noruri was...
  
  
• Mani Nouri

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• Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the...
  
  
• Kambuzia Partovi
  Kambuzia Partovi
  Kambuzia Partovi is an Iranian filmmaker and scriptwriter.Partovi's latest movie, Café Transit, was nominated for the Oscars at 2007 to represent Iranian cinema in the competition for the best foreign language films. He has also written screenplays for other directors, most notably The Circle by...
  
  
• Babak Payami
  Babak Payami
  -Biography:Born in Tehran in 1966, Baback Payami studied cinema at the University of Toronto during the early 90's. In 1998, he returned to Iran after an almost two decade to produce and direct his debut "One More Day" or “Secret Ballot”. This flim describes what happens on election day when an...
  
  
• Rafi Pitts
  Rafi Pitts
  Rafi Pitts is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a 'very bad' child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England in...
  
  
• Kiumars Poorahmad
• Pouran Derakhshandeh
  Pouran Derakhshandeh
  Pourān Derakh'shandeh is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher.Pourān Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School of Television and Cinema in Tehran...
  
  
• Ali Pourtash
  Ali Pourtash
  Ali Pourtash is an actor and comedian of Iranian cinema. Having worked in numerous plays, films, TV shows and stage productions in Tehran and in Los Angeles Pourtash was most recently seen in the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M. directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh...
  
  

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• Iraj Raminfar
  Iraj Raminfar
  Iradj Raminfar is an art director and costume designer. He graduated in art directing from FDA, studied architecture in France. He began working in cinema with Stranger and Fog . As one of the most prominent art directors, he has published a book based on his experiences...
  
  
• Amir Shahab Razavian
  Amir Shahab Razavian
  Amir-Shahāb Razaviān , born in 1965 in Hamadan, Iran, is an Iranian film director, filmmaker and producer.Razavian began his cinematic activities at Hamedan Amateur Film-making Centre in 1980 while still studying at high-school...
  
  
• Shahla Riahi
  Shahla Riahi
  Shahlaa Riahi is an Iranian actress.Born September 1926, Tehran, Iran, she started stage acting in 1944 and first appeared in cinema in Golden Dreams . In 1956, she became the first Iranian woman to direct a feature, with Marjan...
  
  
• Jamil Rostami
  Jamil Rostami
  Jamil Rostami born 1971 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish origin.In 2002 he made his first short film titled The Trouble of Being a Boy in Kurdish, which was screened in 24 domestic and international Festivals and was awarded several prizes.He made his...
  
  
• Rouzbeh Rashidi
  Rouzbeh Rashidi
  Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian avant-garde filmmaker associated with the Remodernist film movement....
  
  

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• Parviz Shahbazi
  Parviz Shahbazi
  -Biography:Shahbazi is a graduate of filmmaking from Tehran's Iran Broadcasting College. During the early 80’s he began writing short stories and directing short films...
  
  
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless
  Sohrab Shahid-Saless
  Sohrab Shahid-Saless 28 June 1944, Tehran – 2 July 1998, Chicago, Illinois) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century...
  
  
• Shahram Mokri
  Shahram Mokri
  -Filmography:*Toofan-e Sanjaghak *Mahdoodeh-ye Dayereh *Andosi *Ashkan , the sacred ring and other stories-External links:*...
  
  
• Javad Shamaqdari
  Javad Shamaqdari
  Javad Shamaqdari is an Iranian filmmaker and "deputy culture minister of film" to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He has attacked the film 300 as psychological warfare and accused American 'cultural authorities' and Hollywood of attacking Iranian culture....
  
  
• Siamak Shayeghi
  Siamak Shayeghi
  Siamak Shayeghi Graduated in Cinema and Television, he started his career as film critic and was assistant director in the mid-1980s. In 1990 and 1991 he worked together with the famous Iranian opera singer and film actor Hossein Sarshar.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Kamran Shirdel
  Kamran Shirdel
  Kamran Shirdel is a renowned Iranian documentarist.He studied architecture and urbanism at the University of Rome and film direction at the of Rome, graduating in 1964. He worked as an assistant director with John Huston on The Bible before making his diploma film, Gli Specchi , in Rome...
  
  
• Mohammad Shirvani
  Mohammad Shirvani
  Mohammad Shirvani is an Iranian film director. His films include President Mir Qanbar , Nahf and La Candidate .-External links:...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, with various awards including Best Film award of the audience for the fiction film Noora in 49th International Film Festival of Taormina in Italy in June 2003...
  
  
• Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai is an Iranian film director. His works are usually based on social documentations. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran...
  
  

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• Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran . A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer & reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.- Filmography as a director :-External links:...
  
  
• Nasser Taghvai
• Hamid Tamjidi
  Hamid Tamjidi
  - Early life :Hamid Tamjidi ; Writer director and producer .Born in Tehran in 1956 . Granduated in film Brood Casting from the collage of Film and Television , Iran Broadcasting College in Iran . He have 4 children , Larisa Tamjidi , Kasra Tamjidi , Nakisa Tamjidi & Parsa Tamjidi...
  
  
• Susan Taslimi
  Susan Taslimi
  Susan Taslimi is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1989, now living and working in Sweden.-Biography:...
  
  
• Farkhondeh Torabi
  Farkhondeh Torabi
  Farkhondeh Torabi is an internationally acclaimed Persian animation director.-Career:She studied psychology at the Alzahra University in Tehran in the mid-1980s. In 1988, she joined IIDCYA and learned theory and practice of animation under the supervision of Vajihollah Fard-Moghaddam...
  
  

See also

• Iranian cinema
• Persian theatre
  Persian theatre
  Theater background in Persia goes back to antiquity . The first initiation of theater and phenomena of acting in people of the land could be traced in ceremonial theaters to glorify legendary and national heroes and humiliate the enemy like "Soug Sivash" or "Mogh Koshi" , and also dances and...
  
  
• List of Iranian cinematographers
• List of Iranian films

External links

• Film International. Iranian Film Quarterly. http://www.film-international.com/.
• Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf among The world's 40 best directors
• Women of Iranian Popular Cinema
• Nantes festival director calls Iranian cinema one of world’s best
• Faces. Short biographies of some Iranian actors and film directors, Film International. http://www.film-international.com/faces/?showall=1.