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9 July 2008 at 19 : 04 PM
Documentary Voices Pulling Focus in Dubai
The First Documentary Voices Pulling Film Festival was held in Dubai from July 4th to 9th. Anisa Mehdi, a distinguished journalist and both a producer and director of films, is the artistic director, and Mahshid Zamani is managing director of this newborn festival. More than thirty filmmakers were invited and participated in this four-day event. […]
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1 July 2008 at 19 : 39 PM
“Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty” Published
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty, by Bahman Maghsoudlou, the first book from a series about how IFVC films are made, was published by the Ketab Corporation in Los Angeles on July 1st. Bahman Maghsoudlou, the producer of this feature documentary, dedicated this book to his younger brother Behrouz Maghsoudlou, who passed away during the […]
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10 June 2008 at 19 : 58 PM
Ardeshir Mohasses Exhibition at the Asia Society
The first major retrospective in the United States of legendary artist Ardeshir Mohasses was exhibited at the Asia Society from May 23rd through August 3rd under the title ‘Art and Satire in Iran.’ This unique exhibition brought together seventy rarely seen ink drawings from pre-and post-Revolutionary Iran. Ardeshir Mohasses (born in 1938 in Rasht, Iran) […]
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4 June 2008 at 19 : 29 PM
Film Festival “Sinfronteras” in Medellin, Colombia
The first Sinfronteras Festival International de Cine was held in Medellin, Colombia from May 28th to June 8th. The festival’s aim is to promote understanding of social subjects through contemporary films, with a different subject highlighted each year. This year’s theme was children and their treatment in the movies. Twenty-five movies from different countries along […]
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22 May 2008 at 19 : 17 PM
Three Short Films Shown at the IAMA
The Iranian American Medical Association (IAMA) held its 15th annual meeting in Washington, DC over the Memorial Day weekend. In a special program for this event, Bahman Maghsoudlou appeared as a guest lecturer and screened three short films: Interview by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Persian Tree by Hassan Naghashi, and Life in Fog by Bahman Ghobadi. After […]
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17 May 2008 at 19 : 43 PM
Ahmad Mahmoud in Toronto
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist, a feature documentary about the life and works of the essential Iranian author, was screened in Toronto on Saturday, May 17th to a full house at the Parya Foundation. The event was dedicated to Behrouz Maghsoudlou, one of the producers of the film, who passed away on April 15th in […]
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25 April 2008 at 19 : 18 PM
Silence of the Sea Released
Silence of the Sea, a poignant study of displacement and one of the most successful Iranian films of the new millennium, finally received a theatrical release in Los Angeles at the Vine Theater on April 25th. The film, written and directed by talented Iranian filmmaker Vahid Mousaian, has been selected for more than thirty international […]
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15 April 2008 at 19 : 17 PM
Behrouz Maghsoudlou (1948-2008)
IFVC is deeply saddened to announce that Behrouz Maghsoudlou, architect, producer and Vice President of IFVC, passed away suddenly in Tehran of a heart attack in April. Behrouz, younger brother of President Bahman Maghsoudlou, was a part of the IFVC wing of film production from the very beginning. Behrouz was born in Kashan, Iran in […]
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4 November 2007 at 19 : 59 PM
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist
On November 2, 2007, Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist was screened at Wien Technical University in Austria . The Iranian Cultural Society of Austria, which arranged the event, invited the filmmaker Bahman Maghsoudlou to attend. The event also included a screening of Mojgan Roudbarani’s film about Mahin Oskui. After the films were shown there was […]
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22 October 2007 at 19 : 34 PM
International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran — The Awards
The first annual International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran was held at the Asia Society on Park Avenue in Manhattan from October 19 to 21. Attendance met expectations, with several of the programs being sold out, and the audience reaction was uniformly enthusiastic. The festival showed a total of sixty films from nine […]
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