Mojtaba Mirtahmasb is a renowned Iranian documentary filmmakers. Having graduated with a BA in Craft Design from the Art University, he started making films in 1990. He has conducted research, scriptwriting, directing and producing for more than 40 documentary films, including Touran Khanom, Six Centuries Six Years, This Is Not a Film, Lady of the Roses, Off Beat, Back Vocal, The River Still Has Fish and The Banner. This Is Not a Film was the outcome of a directorial and production partnership w
...ith Jafar Panahi. It was first premiered at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (Official Selection) and was on the short list for the best documentary for the 2012 Oscar. Mirtahmasb has won many prizes including the Crystal Simorgh (Phoenix) and the Jury Award at the Fajr International Film Festival, the Special Jury Award at the Cinéma Vérité Film Festival, Best Documentary Film Award from the Grand Ceremony of the House of Cinema, the NETPAC Award, UNESCO Award for Best Documentary Film, and the Best Experimental Documentary Film award from the US National Society of Film Critics. Mirtahmasb was a Member of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association (IRDFA) for six years, serving two years as its chairperson. He is one of the founding members of Tehran Province Documentary Filmmakers’ Guild. In recent years, alongside researching and directing his own films, he has been conceiving and producing film projects, chief among them the Karestan Documentary Film Series.Mojtaba Mirtahmasb has been a Director in some movies:
Back Vocal is about that In Iran, female singing voices are deemed to be too provocative, and women are prohibited from perfoming as solo artists by religious law. Demoted to backing singers, many women try to remain active despite the restrictions placed upon them, and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's documentary sympathetically captures their struggles to be heard.
The River Still Has Fish is about that Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's documentary tells the story of one man's touching relation to a dying river. Once a roaring waterway, the river is now only a narrow brook containing the corpses of dead animals, sewage from surrounding houses and shops, and no fish at all. In a fascinating bid to keep the memory of the river's heyday alive, artist Ahmad Nadalian carves images of fish on the stones of the river-bed, and 'The River Still has Fish' pays tribute to his creative way of drawing attention to this environmental issue. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Ahmad Nadalian, Taybeh Dehghan, Sakineh Zolfaghar, Behzad Nadalian, Zohreh Panahi, Mohsen Nazari.
Lady of the Roses is about that 'The Lady of the Roses' tells us the story of a dream come true - the dream of creating a vast rose garden in the dry and hot climate of Kerman, to replace poppies with roses and opium with rosewater. Thereby, Homayoun Sanatizadeh and his wife, Shahindokht, provided employment for 1500 families in a deprived area. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb takes us to see the stunning rose fields and the process of extracting the essence of roses. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Ali Loghmani, Jila Ipakchi, Majid Gorjian.
Off Beat is about that In Iran, it is easy to gain a permit to hold pop concerts. Not so for rock music; performers are rarely allowed to perform publicly, and must keep their music contained in garages, basements, and bedrooms. This is still very much the case today. However, in 2002, ten music aficionodos banded together to hold an online contest for the cream of Tehran's underground rockbands. Boasting music from such bands as Fara, Pharos, and Jiveh, this documentary is essential viewing for anyone interested in the truth behind making music in Iran. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Ebrahim Mokhtari.
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb has been a Sound in some movies:
Afghan Alphabet is about that Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan with his digital camera and questions why they are not being educated. He finds girls studying in UNICEF classes in one region. One of the girls is not willing to come out of her burqa despite the fact that she has run away from Afghanistan and the Taliban are not present here. She is more afraid of the horrifying god that the Taliban have created more than the Taliban. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Maryam Ozbak, Ghafour Barahouyi.
Wind Ruined The School is about that An old man enters a nomadic school. The teacher thought he would be an inspector from training & Educational Ministry, so let him ask some question from the class to obtain what the average I.Q. is. While he gets the students as witness that he didn’t steal the school’s tent and that was the wind’s fault. Then the old man tells him not to be an inspector but a teacher like him in times past and now came to the nomadic school just freshing his memories. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Mahmoud Kalari, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Hassan Karami, Abdollah Jahanpour, Tahmineh Jahanpour, Maryam Jahanpour, Marziyeh Jahanpour, Zahra Jahanpour, Afrasiab Jahanpour.
Gabbeh is about that On the banks of a stream, an old woman and her husband are washing their Gabbeh. From this carpet comes forth a beautiful young woman aptly named Gabbeh who shares her epic tale: she is desperately in love with a mysterious horseman who follows her clan from after. Though her father has agreed to let her marry the man, season after season, the horseman follows Gabbeh always present, always waiting, howling songs of love after nightfall. Delicately interlaced with this simple and touching love story are the people whose lives are shaped by the rhythms of nature, and who instinctively express the joys and sorrows of life through song, poetry, and the tales they tell in their brilliantly-hued weavings. In this film Mojtaba Mirtahmasb collaborates with Mahmoud Kalari, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossein Alizadeh, Abbas Sayyahi, Shaghayegh Jowdat, Hossein Moharrami, Roghayyeh Moharrami, Parvaneh Ghalandari, Khalil Mahmoudi, Mostafa Mirzakhani, Khalil Daroudchi.
Other films are:
Six Centuries, Six Years, This Is Not a Film, All My Trees, A Lifetime in an Hour, Poets of Life, Puzzleys, Friends at Work, MAHAK: A World She Founded, Mother of the Earth, Flax to Fire, Im Bazar der Geschlechter, Touran Khanom
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