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Festival Poster
4th Edition
The 4th Persian Film Festival opened with the highly anticipated Australian premiere of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s award-winning feature The President. The festival hosted eight national and international guests, including Alireza Amini and Bita Beigi from Iran, Saeed Sourati and Nora Niasari from Australia, and Alexandria Bombach from the USA. The festival guests engaged audiences in Q&A sessions after their screenings.
Poster of the 4th Persian Film Festival
Designed by Amin Palangi
Festival Guests
Ester Harding
Ester Harding is a creative producer, working across film, television and multiplatform content. For See Pictures, she served as production executive on feature drama BREATH, co-produced feature comedy SWINGING SAFARI, and produced REMEMBERING AGATHA, a half-hour film for the ABC. Previously, for Media Stockade Ester co-produced feature documentary I AM A GIRL and line-produced broadcast documentary THE SURGERY SHIP for the ABC; for Firelight Productions / 6ixty Foot Films she was the All Media Producer for multiplatform documentary project STORM SURFERS 3D; and for Freehand Productions produced interactive documentary AFTER SIX-FOUR. She has recently joined Screen Australia as a Development Executive.
Fereydoun Mehrabi
Fereydoun is an Iranian actor and theatre director. Hehas performed and directed more than 40 plays and acted in numerous TV series and features. He has also been a lecturer at University of Art (Cinema and Theatre) and University of Art and Architecture in Iran.
Andrea Demetriades
Andrea has worked consistently in Film, TV and Theatre since graduating from NIDA in 2006. Feature films include Adam & Eve, Around the Blockand Nerve. Television includes Pulse,Seven Types of Ambiguity, Janet Kingseries 1, 2 & 3, Crowniesand The Principal. Other TV credits include Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Mr & Mrs Murder, Think Tank and All Saints. Andrea has worked in theatre across the country including Arcadia, Arms and the Man, Perplexand Pygmalionfor STC, The Dog/The Cat, The Book of Everything, Oedipus Rexfor Belvoir, A Beautiful Lifefor Riverside, Intimate Letters, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Nightand Pericles for Bell Shakespeare Co. She has also appeared in Helly’s Magic Cupfor STCSA and Winter for the Griffin Theatre. More recently she had starred in Antigone for Sport for Jove.
David White
David White is an Australian Sound Designer and Sound Editor best known for his role as the sound designer of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road. White won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road with fellow sound editor Mark Mangini.
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Tahmineh Monzavi
Tahmineh Monzavi (born 1988 in Tehran) belongs to the young generation of promising Iranian woman photographers with a body of work that embodies a mature vision along with a unique and comprehensive outlook on the subjects. She received her BA in photography from Azad University but had begun her activities as a documentary photographer prior to that in 2005 when her passionate eye was enthralled by the existing but not quite publicly acknowledged social issues in her hometown, Tehran. Her documentary photographs venture into the underground layers of the city in order to unveil the unseen and the unwanted, hoping to create a deeper awareness of what is shunned upon or seen as taboo through the public eye. In 2009 she made her first documentary film to allow the more expressive medium of film open up new horizons to her creative and critical thinking yet clear traces of her photographic background could be seen in her approach to this new medium.
Vahid Sedaghat
Vahid Sedaghat was born in Tehran in 1983. He is an Iranian producer and writer. After studying film editing at the University of Applied Sciences, he produced View and Some Frame to Death. His most well-known film is “Persian Pasta”, about Iranian students in Italy.
Mohammad Kart
Ahmad Moazzemi
Graduated of Cinema from IRIB College, Ahmad Moazzami started his career from 1994 as assistant director. He started directing TV series and movies in 2004. He also experienced scriptwriting, editing, costume and set designing during his career. Privacy is his debut feature film.
Omid Shams
Born in 1990, he began his education at the Youth Filmmaker Society(2012-2013). Omid Currently studies cinema at National Cinema School in Tehran.
Hossein Molayemi
Born in 1982, Shiraz,Iran. He received his M.A. in animation directing from Tehran University of Art. He started his professional career since 2004. Since then, he has worked as director, character designer, storyboard artist and animator in some animated short films, TV series and commercials and has won some awards so far. He also has taught directing, animating and character design in some universities and art institutes in Iran. He is the founder of animation scientific association of Tehran University of Art and the president of Barfak Animation Studio.
Kiana Naghshineh
Kiana studied Animation at the Filmakademie Baden - Württemberg. There, she realised some Award Winning Shortfilms. After 6 years of studying in Ludwigsburg, Germany, her parents still don't know for sure what she's doing for a living, but they are proud of her anyways. With AUGENBLICKE she graduated from the Filmakademie.
Special Event
Love Marriage in Kabul: Fundraiser
The festival hosted a special fundraiser screening of Amin Palangi’s award winning Love Marriage in Kabul and donated the proceeding to Mahboba’s Promise Charity.