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4 March 2009 at 14 : 30 PM
DVD Release — Daryush Shokof’s Seven Servants
The long-awaited North American DVD release of Daryush Shokof’s Seven Servants, starring the great Anthony Quinn, is finally coming about on March 4, 2009, thanks to Pathfinder Pictures. The film was a darling of film festivals in 1996. Its terrific cast also includes David Warner, Alexander Stewart and Audra McDonald, and its score was composed […]
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11 February 2009 at 14 : 55 PM
Bahman Maghsoudlou at Princeton University
On Wednesday, February 11, by invitation of the Near Eastern Department of Princeton University. Mr. Bahman Maghsoudlou appeared at an event honoring the great caricaturist Ardeshir Mohasses. The short documentary film that Mr. Maghsoudlou made about him in 1972, which remained the only film about Mohasses up until he died in 2008, was screened, and […]
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30 January 2009 at 14 : 09 PM
Bahman Maghsouldlou Speaks in Boston
At the invitation of the Iranian Association of Boston, two IFVC productions, Ardeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures and Silence of the Sea, were screened at their center in Boston. Mr. Bahman Maghsoudlou, the president of IFVC, delivered a lecture and participated in a Q&A after the screening.
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25 November 2008 at 19 : 05 PM
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 […]
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17 November 2008 at 19 : 30 PM
Silence 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 […]
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17 November 2008 at 19 : 18 PM
Announcement
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 […]
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2 November 2008 at 19 : 20 PM
Two 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 […]
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1 November 2008 at 19 : 38 PM
Grass: 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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5 September 2008 at 19 : 45 PM
International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran
IFVC and the Ziba Foundation, the two organizations responsible for the first New York International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran, have collectively decided, based on the success of the first festival, that it should become a bi-annual event. Preparations will be made early next year to begin inviting submissions for the next festival, […]
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1 August 2008 at 19 : 54 PM
Pathfinder Pictures Releases IFVC films
After several months of negotiations, Pathfinder Picture signed a contract with IFVC for release of six of its productions. Pathfinder, based in Venice, California, has released more than two hundred films on DVD in North America, both foreign and domestic productions. The first new releases, to debut in October, will be Manhattan by Numbers, the […]
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