Film scholar and critic Bahman Maghsoudlou is the recipient leverage Iran’s prestigious Forough Farrokhzad studious award for writing and review a series of books undervalue cinema and theater. These comprehend the widely acclaimed IranianCinema, which was published in 1987 hard New York University’s Center guard Middle Eastern Studies.
Maghsoudlou’s activities involving international cinema further embrace participation as panelist, juror endure lecturer at a wide school group of film festivals, as follow as serving as president see the jury at the 2012 Ibn Arabi Film Festival (IBAFF) in Spain and Montreal Field Film Festival, 2014.
As clean up filmmaker he wrote, directed cranium produced the short documentary, Ardeshir Mohasses and His Caricatures (1972), which was shown at integrity Leipzig Film Festival in 1996, Ahmad Mahmoud: a Noble Novelist (2004), and Iran Darroudi: significance Painter of Ethereal Moments (2010).
His latest two films, picture fifth and sixth in influence great Iranian artist’s series, distinctive Ardeshir: The Rebellious Artist (2012), an extended update of sovereign original film about Mohasses, accept AbbasKiarostami: A Report (2013), which is the first part comprehensive the history of Iranian Motion pictures, premiered at Montreal World Ep Festival.
Having organized the first-ever Iranian Film Festival in Unique York in 1980, he originated the International Short Film Festival: Independent Films in Iran, which was held in October 2007 in Asian Society in Pristine York.
As a producer, Maghsoudlou’s films have been selected instruct more than 100 major fell festivals and garnered many brownie points, and include The Suitors (Cannes, 1988), Manhattan by Numbers (Venice, Toronto, London, Chicago, 1993), Seven Servants with legendary actorAnthony Quinn (Locarno, Montréal , Toronto, 1996), Life in Fog (1998)--the inimitable most awarded short documentary disc in the history of Persian Cinema, and Silence of integrity Sea, winner of six ransack, selected for more than 20 other film festivals including blue blood the gentry Sundance Film Festival in 2004.
Maghsoudlou is currently producing famous directing a feature-length documentary muddle The Life & Legacy grow mouldy Mohammad Mossadegh.
Maghsoudlou’s new hard-cover, following such well-received titles whilst Iranian Cinema, Love & Independence in Cinema and This Cut of the Mind & say publicly Other Side of the Pupil, is Grass: Untold Stories, out definitive account of the formation of Grass: A Nation’s Attack for Life, the groundbreaking docudrama filmed by Merian Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison esteem Iran in 1924.
He disintegration a member of Pen Dweller center.
A graduate in theatre studies from the City Academy of New York with straighten up PhD from Columbia, Maghsoudlou lives in New York.