Cinema Verite’s Jury Members of the National Competition Section Announced

The jury members of 15th edition of the Iran International Documentary Film Festival “Cinema Verite" national section has been announced.

Orod Zand, Loqman Khaledi, Javad Ramezannejad, Mohammad Davoodi, Mohammad Reza Farzad, Saeed Rashtian and Nafiseh Morshedzadeh are the jury members of this section.

Orod Zand:

Born: 1949/Tehran

Graduated: Cinema from University Of Fine Arts

Filmography:

Joybareh, Jazmourian, Shrimp Fishing,New Way, An ordinary Day, Narrators, Qeshm Island, Khuzestan, Hamedan,Treasure, School in the Hands of Children, Shah Abdolazim, Golestan Palace, Eimami Language and I, Inscribed Mud, A Narrative of the Constitution, Bitter Sugar , Sleep and wake up, Khan Agha, with Shams, watchmaker

Others:

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Documentray filmmakers

Association, winner of the best film in the field of tourism and best research text from the 28th Roshd Film Festival (1998) for the documentaries «Qeshm Island» and «Treasure», winner of the best narration from the 29th festival Roshd (1378) for «Ganjine»

Mohammad Davoudi

Born: 1958/Tehran

Graduated: Cinema and TV school

Filmography:

Cinematographing of news and war documentary films (1988-1980), producing, directing and Cinematographing of sixteen documentaries and reporting documentaries, producing of feature documentary, cinematography of a feature film -Rain, God is the color of winter, the birth of a butterfly

Others:

The management of the filming unit of the Radio and Television (1997-1991), the winner of Simorgh Blorin, the best filmmaker of the Fajr Film Festival (1997) for the film The Birth of a Butterfly, the winner of Simorgh Blorin, the best filmmaker of the Fajr Film Festival (2005) for the winter film.

Loqman Khaledi

Born: 1978/Kermanshah

Graduated: Editing

Filmoghraphy:

Focus-short film, Documentaries: I am passenger, Subscriber, we are all

accustomed to tea, A little higher, outdoor food, Nesa, Pruning season, steep slope.

Others:

The winner of best directing for the documentary pruning season ,9th Cinema Verite film festival-The winner of the best documentary from 27th Tehran Short Film Festival for the film Subscriber, winner of statue of the best documentary from 22nd Fid Marceille Film Festival for the film A little higher.

Saeed Rashtian

Born: 1956/Tehran

Graduated: Master’s degree from Shiraz University

Filmoghraphy:

Producer of several documentaries, including Mirror of Culture 1 and 2,

comprising  30 documentaries, We Were at War, Illustrators of the Revolution,

Conversation with the Revolution, My Tehran, Hezardestan Amir Jahed,

Mohammad Bahman Beigi, The Last Way

Others:

Research and writing of documentary films, Chairman of the Board of the

Documentary Producers Association   

Mohammad Farzad

Born: 1978/Tehran

Graduated: Master of Theater, Faculty of

Fine Arts, University of Tehran

Filmography:

Gom-o-Gor (Lost),Falgush, The Forget-Me-Not Egg, Wedding: A Closet Documentary,as I lay dying

Others:

Poet, translator and screenwriter, member of the jury at several international film festivals such as Copenhagen Documentary Festivals, Jihlava, Plzen, Dakobaku, Prague Iranian Film Festival – his films has been screened at various national and international film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, The future of the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival and has won awards.

Javad Ramezan-Nejad

Born: 1977/Tehran

Graduated: PhD in Social Communication Sciences

Others:

The managing director-IRIB5, managing director Ofogh Channel, head of Cima Film, managing director-IRIB documentary channel.

Nafise Morshed-zadeh

Born: 1971/Tehran

Graduated: Chemical engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Filmoghraphy:

Ideation workshop for screenwriter and story workshop for plotters and story production workshop for all “Hamshahri” magazines

Others:

She was the secretary of the story section of «Soroush Javan» and «Hamshahri Javan». She was responsible for the story workshop of Hamshahri Magazines Group and she was the editor of Hamshahri Story

Monthly from June 2010 to December 2013, the director of Atraf Publishing.