Tag:Documantary

SharghDaily: Hamed Sa’adat, director of Afghan Girl’s Journey to Identity, in an interview

I had decided not to make any more social films in IranSa’adat believes that making social films, whether fiction or documentary, has its own set of challenges. Like some of his peers, he had initially decided to move away from this genre. Hamed Sa’adat, a documentary filmmaker from Kerman, is presenting his latest film, Afghan Girl’s Journey to Identity, to international audiences. The film portrays part of the life of Farzaneh, a girl from an undocumented Afghan immigrant family born […]

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TehranTimes: Farmer Mahmud Mansuri wins Emerging Talent Award at Wildscreen Festival

TEHRAN – Iranian farmer Mahmud Mansuri has won the Icon Films Emerging Talent Award at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol in the southwest of England. He won the award for his collaboration in “In the Realm of the Spider-tailed Viper”, a documentary film directed by Iranian Fathollah Amiri about the spider-tailed viper that lives in the western Iranian province of Ilam. Mansuri missed the awards ceremony held on Friday as the British Embassy in Tehran refused to grant him a […]

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ABU: Iranian Documentary Awarded in Jackson Hole Wild Life Film Festival

Iranian documentary “Park Ranger and Leopard“ directed and produced by Fathollah Amiri wins the “Best People and Nature Film” award at the 2017 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in the United States. A product of Jame-Jam TV network of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, this documentary has been produced in ABU TV Documentary Coproduction (Care6). This 52-minute documentary portrays the career life of an Iranian ranger who tries to track down a leopard in his protected area in spite of […]

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IRNA: Filming of the Documentary on Ilam’s Reptiles Concludes

On Thursday, Fathollah Amiri announced in an exclusive interview with IRNA that the documentary Alamto, A Reptile Wonderland focuses on the lives and challenges faced by 20 different species of reptiles inhabiting the Ilam province. Some of these species have been introduced and filmed for the first time ever. Amiri added that Alamto, A Reptile Wonderland will be screened for the first time at the 32nd Fajr International Film Festival in the documentary cinema section. The Ilam-based director highlighted the […]

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