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Sohrab Shaheed Salles was born in Tehran in 1944 to a middle-class family and lived in Tehran. Shahid Saless was a storyteller as a child, with a passion for visualizing his narrations. During his teenage years, he showed an imaginative talent, writing and acting in plays with friends. In 1963, Shahid Saless left Iran for Vienna, where he attended a film school and an acting school at the same time, but his studies were discontinued there in 1967 due to a sudden diagnosis of tuberculosis. In the midst of treatment, he left for Paris to continue his film studies at the prestigious Independent Conservatory of French Cinema, and shortly thereafter, in 1968, he returned to Iran. Upon his return to Tehran, Shahid Saless began work with the Iranian Ministry of Culture as a documentary filmmaker, where he produced multiple short films and documentaries, partly on the topic of traditional dance amongst different Iranian ethnic groups.
In the course of his stay in Iran (1968-74), he produced two major feature films, Yek ettefaq-e sada (A simple event, 1973) and Tabiat-e bijan (Still life, 1974), both of which won major international awards for their social realist depiction of life in Iran and for their innovative cinematographic and experimental style. In Yek ettefaq-e sade Shahid Saless entered the film scene with a distinctive style, reporting on the daily life of a ten-year-old villager, showing his struggles to meet ends through smuggling fish. In Tabiat-e bijan the life of a meagerly paid railroad guard worker who is forced to retire for a younger guard is portrayed. In the course of this film, the distressful life of working class is depicted in a critical light. Shahid Saless also made several short films for the Ministry of Culture and Arts. He made many commissioned films on the local folkloric dances of various ethnic groups. He also started making short documentaries depicting the unnerving condition of life among the working class. Unsurprisingly, the political subversive message of these films was disliked by the government, and Shahid Saless was forced to leave the country.
Settled in Germany in 1974, Shahid Saless started producing documentaries for the German media. The movies he made gained him further international recognition, and he continued making documentary and feature films for major German television programs. At this time, Ramin Molai (1939-2009) worked as a cameraman for many of his German movies produced in Berlin. In Germany, his television productions always had a distinguishing artistic quality. He made his last movie, Rosen für Afrika, in 1991 for German television. In 1992, he left Germany for the United States to join his family. He died from a chronic illness related to his liver from which he suffered throughout his life.
Shahid Saless is known to be a pioneer of the new wave of Iranian cinema. In his own words, his cinema intends to document the "antagonism between man and society" (Shahid Saless). In the course of his oeuvre, he viewed the role of cinema as "to make conscious of indignity and inhumanity of life".- Director
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Shirin Neshat was born on 26 March 1957 in Ghazvin, Iran. She is a director and producer, known for Women Without Men (2009), Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017) and Land of Dreams (2021).- Actor
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Manoochehr Nozari was born in 1936 in Ghazvin, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Bravo (1971), The Daydreamer (1973) and Thank You Very Much (1972). He died on 7 December 2005 in Tehran, Iran.- Writer
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Zia Mojabi is an LA-based stage and screen writer. His writing career began at college in Cambridge, England, where he wrote and directed sketch comedies for the campus company. He also directed the alumni productions of a few British stage standards while at Birmingham University. After getting his degree, he moved to Spain, working at Madrid's prestigious Filmoteca Nacional while studying film theory, polishing his Spanish and co-writing with various Madrid writers. He later emigrated to Canada where he wrote and directed some experimental shorts and one teleplay for the Toronto-based CableNet which won him the CableNet award. He then moved to LA to fully focus on the business and pleasures of writing and directing for movies and television. In addition to his writing-directing career, Zia has also served as the senior vice president of Nielsen Entertainment, the premier motion picture research and marketing firm where he advised Sony, Paramount, Disney, Fox and Universal.- Ebrahim Yazdi was born on 3 April 1931 in Ghazvin, Iran. He was married to Sourour Taliye. He died on 27 August 2017 in Izmir, Turkey.
- Ahmad Aghalu was born in 1949 in Ghazvin, Iran. He was an actor, known for All the Temptations of the Earth (1989), Silken Chains (1986) and Take A Look at the Sky Sometimes (2003). He died on 23 November 2008 in Tehran, Iran.
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Behnam Akhondi was born on 18 January 1988 in Ghazvin, Iran. He is known for A Dinner to Remember (2016) and Midnight Kiss (2016).- Javad Mojabi, is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary and art critic. Mojabi is one of Iran's most prominent modern writers and poets, and has published over 50 literary works in various forms. He has also written hundreds of critical works and essays on art and culture in journals and magazines. He began writing poetry in the 1960s, along with short story writing and research on modern painting in Iran. A well-known satirist, the poet is close to Nima in style but mostly inclined to Shamlou in blank verse. Mostly focusing on social themes, Mojabi is a poet of philosophy and thought, which he sweetens with a blend of satire. He employs the meter but omits it when it prevents him from expressing his thoughts. He has a daughter, Poupak, on whom he bases some of his works. He has previously criticised the censorship process in Iran.