# Abolfazl Attar

Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z "Adin Attar" (Persian: ابوالفضل عطار; born September 23, 1968) is an Iranian film director, actor, screenwriter and film editor.

## Early life

Adin Attar was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran and started learning filmmaking in the early 1980s. He was an active member of the Iranian Young Cinema Society In 2007 he conducted a research project to revise and improve the legal rights of authors and intellectual property owners, and presented it to the Iranian authorities.

## Memberships

* Founder, Executive Director & Head of Management SETAYESH FILM
* Union of Iranian Entertainment Companies (UIEC)
* The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds
* Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS)

## Activities

* Artistic activity started in 1981 with the Theater in Mashhad
* Making short films,8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm
* Making Documentary films and video advertising
* Teaching filmmaking in Mashhad Young Cinema Society, howze honari & private institutions
* Started professional filmmaking in 1993 with TV "This home is far away ".
* Collaborate With more than fifty short film, half long, series and movies as:
* Screenwriter, consulting, planning, production manager, editing, actor, assistant director & cinematographer.
* Member of jury in Film Festival: (Iranian Young Cinema Society) provinces: Khorasan, Gilan, Mazandaran, Semnan.
* Writing articles and film criticism in newspapers Khorasan, culture and cinema & soure
* Secretary of Scientific, Cultural, Art & Literature Services in newspaper of Gozaresh -e- Rooz

## Selected filmography

| Year | Films | | | | |
| 1988 | FOR ALL OF US | Screenwriter | | | |
| 1988 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Screenwriter | | | |
| 1986 | THE BURNED EARTH | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1986 | ROOTS IN DEPTH | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1987 | THE RINGING OF MY BELL | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1990 | WINDOW ON ALLEY | Screenwriter | Director | | Production Manager |
| 1999 | The Law of Karma | Screenwriter | Director | | Line Producer |
| 2008 | EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT | Screenwriter | Director | Editor |
| 2010-11 | REFERENCE POINT | | Director | | |
| 2011 | MY DEAR FAMILY (YOUTHFULNESS) | | Director | Co -Editor | Line Producer |
| 2011-12 | THE LAST RAINY DREAM | | Director | | |
| 2013 | SEVENTH PASSWORD | | | Editor | |

## As an actor

| Year | Title | Role | Director |
| 1992 | Rainy Night | Older brother | Majid Hamed |
| 2011 | The Last rainy dream | Police Maj. | Adin Attar |
| 2012 | Like Glass | University professor | Javad Mozdabadi |
| 2012 | Once Upon a Time | In two roles | Abolfazl Ahmadian |
| 2015 | The testing season | Kazem Karimi | Navid Torabi |
| 2016 | Roulette | Ata Gunesh | Mohsen Rabiei |
| 2016 | Rough Land | Bahram | Mohammad Ravandi |
| 2016 | Beautiful City | Tooraj Jamali | Mehdi Mazloumi |
| 2016 | Borderline | Doctor Parsa | Ahmadreza Garshasbi |

## Awards

| Year | Films | Awards | Festivals |
| 1987 | ROOTS IN DEPTH | Best Scriptwriter | 2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan |
| 1987 | THE RINGING OF MY BELL | Best Director | 2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan |
| 1987 | THE BURNED EARTH | Best Film Editor | 2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan |
| 1987 | ROOTS IN DEPTH | Second Prize for the filmscript | Fajr Artistic and Cultural Competitions |
| 1988 | THE RINGING OF MY BELL | Best Scriptwriter | 6th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran |
| 1988 | THE RINGING OF MY BELL | Candidate of the Best Editor & Director | 6th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran |
| 1989 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Best Scriptwriter | 7th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran |
| 1990 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Best Film | Danobiale International Film festival, Austria (Scriptwriter) |
| 1990 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Best Film | Eskopie International Film Festival Skopje Film Festival, Yugoslavia (Scriptwriter) |
| 1991 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Best Film | Igualada International Film Festival, Spain (Scriptwriter) |
| 2000 | THE LAW OF KARMA | Best Film | Youth's Film Festival, Khorassan |
| 2005 | THE LAW OF KARMA | Best Film | Fajr International Film Festival (Khorassan Province), Iran |