Born in 1974, Negar Azarbayjani ( نگار آذربایجانی ) holds a BA in cinema from Art University of Tehran and an MA degree in visual media arts from Emerson College in Boston. She started her career by acting in a few television series and also worked as the assistant editor in SHEYDA by Kamal Tabrizi. She has directed a number of Shorts and Animations in the US as well as in Iran. Among her short subjects are SAFE CORNER, ROYA and also VIRTUAL TRUTH which won the critics special award from Tehran
...Film Festival in 2007. She started writing scripts for feature films in 2007 and directed her first feature in 2011. Her first feature FACING MIRRORS won several awards in International Fajr Film Festival, Iranian Critics Film Festival, and International Urban Film Festival & KHANEH CINEMA. It has been also presented in more than 150 international film festivals around the world and has won more than 50 awards including Circle Award from Washington DC, International Film Festival – 2012.Negar Azarbayjani has been a Director in some movies:
Facing Mirrors is about that Two very different women, Adineh and Rana, team up to claim their well-deserved freedom and happiness in this mesmerizing drama. Adineh, a rebellious and likeable transsexual woman, meets the conservative Rana while running away from her home and an arranged marriage. Rana is driving a taxi to pay off her imprisoned husband's debts, and her meeting with Adineh becomes the catalyst for pursuit of a better life. As the pair grow to understand one another, both women feel increasingly responsible for one another's happiness. Unmissable. In this film Negar Azarbayjani collaborates with Homayoun Ershadi, Saber Abar, Shayesteh Irani, Maryam Boubani, Nima Shahrokh Shahi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Safa Aghajani, Fereshteh Taerpoor, Ghazal Shakeri, Touraj Mansouri, Mehran Malakooti, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Fardin Khalatbari, Sara Bahrami, Mehrshad Malakooti, Rabe'e Oskouei, Iman Omidvari, Ramtin Firoozian.
Behind the Scenes: Facing Mirrors is about that One of the most groundbreaking titles in the history of Iranian cinema, this documentary gives us exclusive insight into the complex world of Persian filmmaking. Rana is a kindhearted young mother struggling to provide for her son as she awaits her husband's release from prison, while 'Eddie,' or Adineh, tries to escape the clutches of her oppressive father in order to pursue a sex change abroad. As we follow the intertwined lives of these protagonists, we learn not just what it means to be transgender in contemporary Iran, but how women must bend to fit the roles carved out for them by a patriarchal hierarchy. A chance to witness how a modern masterpiece is formed. In this film Negar Azarbayjani collaborates with Homayoun Ershadi, Saber Abar, Shayesteh Irani, Maryam Boubani, Nima Shahrokh Shahi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Fereshteh Taerpoor, Ghazal Shakeri, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Rabe'e Oskouei, Mola Shahsavari, Keyhan Bayegan.
Season of Narges is about that Season of Narges takes the viewer into the lives of three women through three connected stories. A star-studded cast accompanies the sensitive style of film-making from the director of Facing Mirrors. In this film Negar Azarbayjani collaborates with Mohammadreza Hedayati, Pejman Bazeghi, Rima Raminfar, Shayesteh Irani, Gohar Kheirandish, Yekta Naser, Amir Aghaei, Saleh Mirza Aghaie, Abdollah Eskandari, Touraj Mansouri, Abbas Rastegarpour, Sattar Oraki, Khashayar Movahedian, Mehrzad Zarrabian, Reza Narimizadeh, Shirin Esmaeili, Mahlagha Naghed, Soudabeh Saidnia, Ilia Nasrollahi, Sahar Sabbagh Seresht, Omid Salehi, Amir Sadra Haghani, Shabnam Goodarzi.
Negar Azarbayjani has been a Actor in some movies:
The Afflicted Generation is about that Setareh Asadi is hired fto be a nurse for a Qajar Prince’s physically disabled son. In this film Negar Azarbayjani collaborates with Amir Hossein Seddigh, Atila Pesyani, Niki Karimi, Saeed Poursamimi, Habib Dehghan Nasab, Fatemeh Naghavi, Farhad Ghaemian, Rasoul Mollagholipour, Bahman Ardalan, Hossein Jafarian, Hassan Hassandoust, Ali Ghaem Maghami, Siamak Ansari, Ali Lak-Pourian, Pourya Azarbayjani, Amir Abedi, Mohsen Mossavi, Malek Jahan Khazaee, Ramin Behna.
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