4th Edition

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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

Davood Khayyam

Davood Khayam is an Iranian film director known for 2016 movie Mohey. He wrote and directed the short film Aquarium. Is the Managing director and Head of the board of directors of Seven White Ribbon filmmaking institute.

Ray Argall

Ray has worked as a director, producer, DOP, editor and writer on features, shorts, documentaries, and established a reputation as one of Australia's most innovative cinematographers on features such as Wrong World, The Prisoner of St Petersberg and Look Both Ways. Ray's rst feature, Return Home, received an AFI Award for best director and was presented at numerous international festivals.

Helen Panckhurst

Helen has produced TV drama, documentaries and feature lms. Her credits as producer for Matchbox include Old School starring Bryon Brown and Sam Neill, The Straits, Gregor Jordan’s documentary Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer. She co-produced, with Penny Chapman, the Logie & AFI Award-winning children’s television series My Place and Ran, the six-part miniseries for SBS.

Martin Brown

Martin produced Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge, winner of Golden Globe for Best Musical in 2001 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including: Best Picture (winning two for Costume Design and Art Direction). Martin was awarded the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Producer of the Year in 2001 by the Producers' Guild of America for his work on Moulin Rouge.

Sue Murray

Sue Murray has executive produced Rolf de Heer’s Dr Plonk, Ten Canoes, The King is Dead! and Charlie’s Country ; the documentaries The Balanda and the Bark Canoes and We’re Livin’ On Dog Food, Tom White and co-produced Alexandra’s Project. She has devised marketing and festivals strategies for Son of a Lion, My Tehran For Sale, Samson & Delilah, Little Sparrows and Beatriz’s War.

AFTRS Theatre

Building 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park

Mo Scarpelli

Mo is a non-fiction director whose curiosity of humans and underexposed spaces has led her to film and photograph in more than a dozen countries around the world. Mo recently Co-Directed and Produced the award-winning feature-length film, FRAME BY FRAME, about four Afghan photojournalists on the forefront of Afghanistan's fledgling free press. The film had its world premiere in 2015 at SXSW Film Festival before screening at Hot Docs, AFI DOCS, BFI London Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and 60+ others around the world. The film has garnered more than a dozen jury and audience awards as well as a Cinema Eye Honors nomination, and continues to show in theaters and festivals, with a digital and TV release coming soon. Mo is a recipient of the Speranza Foundation Female Filmmaker Award, the Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision (Seattle Intl Film Festival), and the Reel Women Direct Prize (Cleveland Intl Film Festival).

Alexandria Bombach

Alexandria Bombach is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her feature-length documentary, On Her Shoulders (2018), won Best Directing in the US Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.

Afshin Hashemi

Afshin Hashemi was born in 1975 in Iran. He has MA in Directing and Acting/ Art University (Cinema-Theater ). He is an actor, play writer, musician and director. Don’t Be Tired is directorial debut of Afshin Hashemi.

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.