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Allamehzadeh, Reza |
Date of birth
27 November 1943, Sari, Mazandaran province, Iran
Reza Allamehzadeh (November 27, 1943, Sari, Mazandaran province, Iran)
Reza Allamehzadeh is a Persian-born Dutch film-maker, film critic and writer who lives in the Netherlands.
He is mostly famous because of his films about refugees, such as The Guests of Hotel Astoria (1988), and the documentary Holy Crime (1994), which is about the murder of opposition figures in Europe by the Islamic regime in Iran.
Allamehzadeh was born in 1943 in Sari, Mazandaran province. He studied film directing at “Tehran Academy of Film and Television” in 1966-1969.
Alongside with filmmaking he is regularly writing and publishing children’s books, novels and short stories.
He is giving film and TV courses in various universities around the world such as Hollins University in Virginia (US), Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) and International R/TV Training Center in the Netherlands, where he has been living since 1983.
Allamehzadeh has been one of the advocates of Kurdish cinema. He is native in Persian and fluent in English and to some extent Dutch and Spanish.
Films
Some of his films are:
1973 The Trap
awarded Grand Prix at 12th International film festival for Children and Youth in Gijon, Spain
1980 "The Little Black Wise Fish"
a documentary about the life of Samad Behrangi, founder of children's literaA¬ture in Iran,16mm. color, 45 min.
1986 A Few Simple Sentences
awarded as: best short Stockholm 1986, International Immigrant Film Festival; best children's film, Tomar 1987 International Festival of Cinema for Children and Youth; best children's film, the jury of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ), International Moscow Film Festival, 1987.
1988 The Guests of Hotel Astoria
feature length, selected for the Venice, Moscow, Montreal and Chicago Film Festivals;
1989 "The Night After the Revolution"
a documentary about Rushdie affaire in the context of the history of Iranian censorship, 16mm. color, 48 min. (Selected for Melbourne and Strasbourg Film Festivals). RVU television.
1994 Holy Crime
a controversial documentary on state terrorism of Islamic government of Iran in European countries.
Awards and Honors
1997 Nominated Human Rights Activist of the Year by Iran Books.
1988 “The Guests of the Hotel Astoria” Feature Length Film selected for Venice, Moscow, Montreal and Chicago Film Festivals.
1987 Best children's film, Tomar 1987 International Festival of Cinema for Children and Youth: A Few Simple Sentences.
Best children's film, the jury of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ), International Moscow Film Festival, 1987: “A Few Simple Sentences.”
1986 Best short Stockholm 1986, International Immigrant Film Festival: “A Few Simple Sentences”
1973 Grand Prix Prize at 12th International film festival for Children and Youth in Gijon Spain
Selected filmography of
Allamehzadeh, Reza
2014
Tell Me of the Seas (2014)
2011
Iranian Taboo (2011)
1989
The Night After The Revolution | De nacht na de revolutie (1989)
1988
The Guests of Hotel Astoria (1988)
The Holy Crime
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