Mohammad Shirvani
Mohammad Shirvani is an Iranian alternative filmmaker.
He was born in 1973 in Tehran; he quit painting to follow his passion for cinema.
Shirvani has escaped from military service to make his first short film "The Circle" in 1999.
This film was selected for the Critics' Week International Cannes festival in the same year.
, Shirvani has made 18 films; the last one "Fat Shaker" won the Golden Tiger for the best film in Rotterdam Film Festival.
His films have been screened in more than 500 international events where he won many prices, such as; Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Locarno, Toronto, Tribeca and Busan.
Although he could not screen them widely in his homeland.
In 2014, Shirvani published 18 films which he produced on his personal website as a protest against censorship in Iranian cinema.
A month later his website was banned and making new films became temporarily forbidden for him.
However, since 2012, he has been trying to keep Iranian alternative cinema movement alive and fresh by improving young talents through his "Alternative Cinema Workshop".
Peter Levin
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Ian Barry (director)
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Jesse E. Hobson
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Dana Blankstein
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President Mir Qanbar
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The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.
The film won the Award of Excellence at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2005 and in 2007 won the Audience Favorite award at the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.
S. N. Mathur
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Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
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He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Olav Aaraas
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He was born in Fredrikstad.
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In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
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Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film President Mir Qanbar?
Answer: Tehran