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Born in Iran in 1968, Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi works as member of advise committee of Dutch Visual Arts Foundation incentive grants and Artist residency since 2004. She started her studies with Astronomy-physics at university of Tehran and later in the Netherlands at the university of Groningen. Following by a bachelor in painting at Art Academy Minerva, she continued studying Video and Film at Post Academy Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She has attended on various art exhibitions with her photos and video arts in Holland and USA, and has made two short films which the newest, „My Own 1000 Square Meters”…

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An interview with couple Filmmaker Afsar Sonia Shafie and Martin Frei Synopsis: Afsar Sonia Shafie returns to Iran after an absence of five years. It is here in Tehran that she once again finds the women who have marked her life the most: her grandmother, mother, and sister. Contrary to the preconceived notions reigning in the West, in Shafie’s family it is the women who wear the pants despite their veils…, Shohreh Jandaghian – How did you come about to return to Iran and shoot “City Walls – My own private Tehran”? Afsar Sonia Shafie- At the very beginning my…

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A Feature Documentary by Sherine Salama An interview with Sherine Salama Palestinian-Australian Filmmaker Shohreh Jandaghian- How did you first get involved in filmmaking, Sherine? Sherine Salama – Documentary film making for me has always been the perfect vehicle to express how I see the world. After travelling for many years I spent several years in Cairo, where I became interested in journalism. I wrote for English language newspapers and travelled to Jerusalem for the first time during the Gulf War in 1991. When I came back to Australia I worked as a television reporter, which was a great experience, but…

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Born in Kenya on 1982, Hawa Noor is Camerawoman and Filmmaker who graduated from Mass Communication and Journalism at the Islamic University of Uganda in 2004. She started her internship in Press field and later worked as Camerawoman at the local TV station “Citizen”. Since 2004, she is working at NTV Station belongs to the Nation Media Group in Nairobi. Her last film “The Unspoken Samburu Handicapped Kids” is a short documentary shot in February 2006 in Kenya. Shohreh Jandaghian- Could you explain a bit about the theme you have chosen for your documentary? Hawa Noor- This is a feature…

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The 12th Aye Aye Film Festival edition will be held from September 1rst through the 9th, 2006 in the city Nancy, France. It presents short films from all over the world with different programs in various sections to an international audience. www.ayeaye-vo.com Sylvain Mariette was born in Paris and studied Cinema & Audio visual. He has directed several short films and since the foundation of the Aye Aye Film Festival in 1995, he is active as director and coordinator of the festival. Shohreh Jandaghian- Could you begin by telling us what were the reasons for starting Aye Aye Film Festival?…

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“In Bam I met a man who was lost his wife and two daughters and he had only their picture…” After the horrible earthquake of December 2003 in Iranian oldest city “Bam”, Aliona van der Horst, Dutch-Russian Documentary maker was there to make her long documentary called “Voices of Bam”. A 90 minutes poetic documentary showing the lives of earthquake survivors while listening to their inner dialogues with their lost dears. Aliona van der Horst, Dutch- Russian documentary maker, born in Moscow and grew up in Holland, has studied Russian Language and Literature in Amsterdam (1993) and then later finished…

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When people talk about film, the first word that comes to mind it’s Hollywood. But believe it or not, before the “H Town”, other cities in countries around the world where not just pioneering but taking this new media to boundaries that sometimes we now take for granted. Argentina was one of the first. Cinema arrived in Argentina soon after being launched in Paris and, in a short time, the first national productions started to be shot. Among other attractions, there were world-class pioneers in scientific and animation movies. But the true industry started only in 1933, with the establishment…

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An interview with Iranian-Dutch Filmmaker Ramin Farahani Ramin Farahani is an independent filmmaker based in Amsterdam and Tehran. He studied Film directing at the Cinema and Theatre faculty of the Art University in Tehran 1989-93, followed by another study in the same direction at the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam 1997. His last film is a documentary titled “Jews of Iran” shown in many international film festivals such as Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2005, New Zealand International Documentary Festival 2005 and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2006. “Jews of Iran” The Jewish settlement in Iran dates back to…

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In 1996 during working on a short film in Amsterdam, I met Shoresh Kalantari who was studying film directing in “Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academi“. His short film “Meaning of Night” was Oscar nominated at that time and was shown in lots of international short film festivals. Shoresh moved later to Canada to study Film Production in Concordia University in Montreal and since 2004 he is working as TV producer for United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. ShJ- To start at the very beginning, what were the major factors that led you to take up working as a TV Producer…

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