Archive for November 2008
Three IFVC Productions Available in DVD
Three IFVC productions are now available in DVD in North America for the first time. Pathfinder Pictures is now offering Amir Naderi’s Manhattan by Numbers, Vahid Mousaian’s Silence of the Sea and the documentary Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Libert, about this most important of contemporary Iranian poets. Shamlou is the first in a series…
Read MoreSilence of the Sea Screened in Washington
Silence of the Sea, the highly acclaimed film by Vahid Mousaian, was screened in Washington at Kanoone Iranian. Producer Bahman Maghsoudlou was a guest speaker at the event and participated in a Q&A with the audience after a short lecture. Kanoon also screened another film by Maghsoudlou, Ardeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures, the following week…
Read MoreAnnouncement
IFVC is proud to announce that Bahman Maghsoudlou’s new book, Grass: Untold Stories, has been released by Mazda Publishing. This is the stirring tale of the lives of three American explorers and film pioneers, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, creators of King Kong, and Marguerite Harrison, a journalist for the Baltimore Sun, who traveled to…
Read MoreTwo Documentaries by Bahman Maghsouldlou Screened
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist and Ardeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures, two documentaries produced and directed by Bahman Maghsoudlou, were screened in three cities in Sweden. The films were shown at the Folkets Hus Center in Hammarkullen, Gothenburg on October 31, at the Iranian Swedish Center in Malmo on November 1, and at Kanune Film in Stockholm…
Read MoreGrass: Untold Stories Published
Mazda Publisher has announced that the hardcover edition of Grass: Untold Stories by Bahman Maghsoudlou will be out before the end of the year. This is the second book by the author in English. His first book was Iranian Cinema, which included an introduction by Andrew Sarris and was published by New York University in…
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