Granaz was born in 1974 in Tehran. At the age of 17, she started writing professionally as a book review writer and literary critic. She then took various Drama courses in Tehran focusing on acting. She changed her focus from pursuing acting to Screen Studies and filmmaking. In 2002, she made A Short Film About Colour. She graduated with a postgraduate degree in film editing in 2006. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate with a scholarship at the University of Western Sydney researching "The Ae
...sthetics of Poetic Cinema". She has made several short films and documentaries and has participated in various roles in a few feature films. In 2008 she made "My Tehran for Sale".Granaz Mousavi has been a Director in some movies:
My Tehran for Sale is about that Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear. In this film Granaz Mousavi collaborates with Marzieh Vafamehr, Asha Mehrabi, Seyed Mehdi Heydari, Julie Ryan, Kate Croser, Bryan Mason, Amir Chegini, Mobina Karimi, Mitra Mehraban, Sandy Cameron, Hadi Mansouri, Bonnie Elliott, Tom Heuzenroeder, Afsaneh Gholizadeh.
Granaz Mousavi has been a Actor in some movies:
For Everything is about that The lives of several young women working in a dressmaking factory. Trouble comes when two of them take some money from the company safe to pay for another’s medical treatment. In this film Granaz Mousavi collaborates with Malihe Nikjumand, Isa Safayi, Hooshang Ghovanloo, Fatemeh Goudarzi, Ataollah Hayati, Yadollah Najafi, Mahmoud Samakbashi, Reza Alipour Moteallem, Sohrab Mir Sepasi, Soosan Shakerin, Hashem Moosavi, Amir Soleimani, Aghdas Sehat Bakhsh, Roohangiz Mohtadi, Farnoosh Al-e Ahmad, Mandana Aslani, Eliza Johari, Rajab Mohammadin, Ima Mashhadizadeh, Mahin Amirfazli, Zohre Saidi, Safie Aghajani, Amir Maleki.
Road of Love is about that Sara is a teacher in a remote city. She becomes ill and The physician prescribes her a medicine that must be provided from Tehran.,. One of Sara’s colleagues asks her sister, Maryam, to look for that in Tehran. Maryam studies theater in the university. She and some other students are going to perform the ‘Last Supper by Jeanne D'Arc’ and Maryam is the person in charge; thereby, she is unable to find the medicine Maryam and her colleague are left with no choice but to call people’s houses in order to find it . Finally, an old pharmacist gives it to them .Maryam and Shirin leave Tehran for the village to deliver the medicine. and On the way, they come across a woman and her sick child. They take them to the county with themselves. After examining the child, the physician prescribes the same treatment, which is that rare medicine. There are two patients and only one dose of treatment. Therefore, once again they start looking for the same medicine and Sara prefers to give hers to the sick child… In this film Granaz Mousavi collaborates with Behnaz Jafari, Mehri Vadadian, Atash Taghipour, Sima Tirandaz, Ali Asghar Garmsiri, Fariba Kamran, Lorik Minassian, Jafar Vali, Masoumeh Aghajani, Hashem Moosavi, Hassan Soltani, Mohammad Heydari, Fatemeh Hashemi, Maryam Kazemi, Rajab Mohammadin, Masoomeh Karimi, Nasrin Jamali, Afsaneh Mohammadi, Fatemeh Saghafi, Parham Parvas.
When Pomegranates Howl is about that A nine-year-old boy from Kabul decides to start a business as a cart pusher, hoping to raise enough money to follow his dreams. In this film Granaz Mousavi collaborates with Marzieh Vafamehr, Raya Nasiri, Hossein Alizadeh, Hossein Ghourchian, Shima Monfared, Behrouz Badrouj, Hasiba Ebrahimi, Chris Williams, Bahir Vardak, Heshmatollah Fanaei, Saeedeh Sadat, fereshteh Alami.
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