Jafar Najafi (filmmaker)

Jafar Najafi, Iranian filmmaker and photographer. Born in 1986.Jafar Najfi's interview with Moj newsAsho's page on San Francisco Iranian Film Festival. He started his career in cinema as sound assistant and photographer from when he was just 17; Later on he developed his career and worked as an assistant director and cameraman in some projects. After around 10 years of his early start on this career, he made his first television documentary named "To the color of existence" in 2018 for IRIB channel of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province|Chahar-Mahal-BakhtiyariFrom his facebook page.. In 2019 he made Asho that attracted a lot of attention among Iranian cinema societyIranian Documentary Film Festival article about Asho.National news about Asho: Islamic Republic News Agency(Persian) Islamic Republic News Agency (English) , Iranian Student News Agency and Tehran Times and also internationallyAsian movie pulse review about AshoInternational news about Asho: News day 24 and Modern time reviews
Najafi is more interested in picturing traditional beliefs and faiths from his own culture and how they affect people's life, women rights or child, and you can see this vision vividly in both of his films. 
Year	Title 	Genere 	Other
2018	To the color of existence	Documentray 	Chahar-Mahal-Bakhtiyari
2019	Asho 	Short Documentary	
Year	Award 	Category 	Nominated Work	Result 	Ref
2019	Leipzig DOK Festival 	Short Animated & Documentary Film 	Asho 	Winner 	Asho's page on Leipzig DOK Festival
2019	International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 	Children's Documentary 	Asho 	Winner 	IDFA winners
2019	Cinema Vérité Iran International Documentary Film Festival 	Best Short Documentary 	Asho 	Winner 	Winners list of 13th cinema vérité Iran international documentary film festival
2020	Big Sky Film Festival 	Best Short Documentary 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on Big Sky Documentary Film festival 2020
2020	Fribourg International Film Festival 	Best Short Film 	Asho 	Winner 	Winner list of The Fribourg International Film Festival 2020
2020	EBS International Documentary Festival 	Short Documentary Comepetition 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on EBS International Documentary Festival
2020	É Tudo Verdade 	International Short Film Competition 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on É Tudo Verdade
2020	Lessinia Film Festival 	Premio Lessinia D'Oro Award for Best Film	Asho 	Winner 	Winner list of Lessinia Film Festival 2020
2020	Millenium International Documentary Film Festival 	Shorts International Competition 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on Millenium Film Festival
2020	DOQUMENTA International Documentary Film Festival 	International Competition 	Asho 	Winner 	Asho's page on DOQUMENTA International Documentary Film Festival
2020	Sevastopol International Festival of Documentary Films and TV Programs	Best Short Film 	Asho 	Winner 	Awards of the XVI Sevastopol International Festival of Documentary Films and TV Programs
2020	BFI London Film Festival 	Best Short Film 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on BFI London Film Festival
2020	The San Francisco Iranian film festival 	Best Short Film 	Asho 	Nominated	
2020	Apricot Tree, International Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival 	Best Short Film 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on Apricot tree film festival
2020	Millennium Docs Against Gravity 	OKI DOKI 	Asho 	Nominated	Asho's page on Mellennium Docs Against Gravity
Category:Iranian people
Category:Iranian photographers
Category:Iranian filmmakers