Draft:Ali Shahmohammadi


Ali Shahmohammadi[1] is an Iranian awarded filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, supervisor and teacher of screenwriting[2], film co-production facilitator,[3] film editor and photographer.[4]

Career

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He first studied in “Repair and maintenance of airplane” engineering. In the same years, he completed a one-year filmmaking course at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and made his first short film as a graduation project in 2000.

In the first years of filmmaking, he had made his films by the income he earned from the airplane engineering field and was making many short fiction and documentary films.

Simultaneously with filmmaking, he also studied in "English Language Teaching" and received a bachelor's degree in this field. Then he studied in Dramatic Literature and received a master's degree in it from the Faculty of Art and Architecture (Tehran).

After that, he resigned from airplane engineering job and went to Europe to continue his education and received a master's degree in documentary film directing from DOCNOMADS,[5] which is a Joint Master between Belgium, Portugal and Hungary, supported by the European Union.

He is also a film editor who edited several fiction films and documentary series and photographer with some photo exhibitions[6]

Ali Shahmohammadi also has written two books: "Two weeks, ten steps to start screenwriting" and "Reading Takhti " which is a monologue for theater about Gholamreza Takhti, Olympic champion and hero of the Iranian people.

Filmography

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  1. Trinity: Mother, me and home (Feature documentary) - 2024
  2. Gabriella (Feature documentary – editing phase) - 2023
  3. Let’s talk about it (Documentary  – 28 min) - 2020
  4. The man (Feature documentary - 107  min) - 2021    
  5. Legrand (Documentary – 16 min) - 2018
  6. Ali’s Gholamreza (Documentary – 52 min) - 2011
  7. Head wind (Fiction – 10 min) - 2009
  8. Ten, one, Sixty one (Documentary – 46 min) - 2008
  9. Tehran a quite snowy day (Documentary – 52 min) - 2007
  10. Children of Paradise (Documentary – 52 min) - 2005
  11. It’s happened in one day (Documentary – 47 min) - 2004
  12. The day which rocks the world (Documentary – 13 min) - 2003
  13. Where of this dark night (Fiction – 10 min) - 2000
  14. Where the pavements end… Fiction – 9 min) - 2000

Awards, honors and competition entries

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  • Gold Remi Award: Best Independent Documentary for "It's Happened in One Day" from Houston International Film Festival- 2010[7]
  • Silver Remi Award: Best experimental film for "Head wind" from the Houston International Film Festival - 2010[8]
  • Silver Remi Award: Best independent documentary film for "Tehran, a quite snowy day" from Houston International Film Festival - 2010 [8]
  • Silver Remi Award: Best social documentary film for "Children of the Paradise" from Houston International Film Festival - 2009[9]
  • Golden trophy: Best research for “The Knight” from Iran Sports Film Festival - 2021[10]
  • Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Urban Film Festival by “The Knight” - 2022[11]
  • Participation: Competition section - TV documentary Film Festival - “The Knight”- 2021[12]
  • Participation: Competition section – Jordan Karama International Film - "Legrand" - 2019
  • Participation: Competition section – Sport Movies & TV Milan International FICTS Festival - "The Knight" - 2019[13]
  • Public screening: "The Knight" in Art and Experience Cinemas - 2018[14]
  • Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Short Film Festival - "Legrand" - 2017[P. 186 1]
  • Participation: Competition section – Cinema Verite International Film Festival - "The Knight" - 2017[15]
  • Participation: Competition section - Cinema Verite International Film Festival - "Ten, One, Sixty One" - 2011[16]
  • Participation: Competition section: Tehran International Urban Film Festival - "Children of the Paradise" - 2007
  • Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Urban Film Festival "Head Wind" and "Tehran, a quite snowy day" - 2008

Notes

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  1. ^ "35th_Tehran International short film festival booklet" (PDF). Tehran International Short Film Festival: 412.

References

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  1. ^ "Milano IntI. FICTS Filmfest. to host 3 Iranian documentaries". Mehr News Agency. 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ "انجمن ایرانی مطالعات جهان". iwsa.ir. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  3. ^ "The Virtual Coproduction Panel of Iran and Pakistan Was Held at the 33rd Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth". 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  4. ^ "Legrand". Karama Festival. 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  5. ^ "Fifth Edition (2016-18)". www.docnomads.eu. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  6. ^ "نمایشگاه عکس« بودن» همزمان با اربعین در موزه سینما – موزه سینما" (in Persian). 2023-09-04. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  7. ^ "جایزه جشنواره هوستون برای سه فیلم شاه‌محمدی". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  8. ^ a b "جایزه جشنواره هوستون برای سه فیلم شاه‌محمدی". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  9. ^ ""بچه‌های اعماق" پلاک نقره‌ای جشنواره هوستن را برد". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2009-06-28. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  10. ^ "مرور دوازدهمین دوره جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم‌های ورزشی – جشنواره بین المللی فیلم های ورزشی" (in Persian). 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  11. ^ "رقابت ۲۷ اثر در بخش «مستند» جشنواره فیلم شهر/ معرفی ۱۴ اثر به بخش بین‌الملل جشنواره". shahr.ir (in Persian). 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  12. ^ ادمین (2022-08-24). "شهسوار". هشتمین جشنواره تلویزیونی مستند. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  13. ^ borna.news (2019-08-20). "«شهسوار» به جشنواره ورزشی میلان رفت". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  14. ^ "سرنوشت خاکستری/ نگاهی به فیلم «شهسوار» | پایگاه خبری تحلیلی سینما سینما". cinemacinema.ir. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  15. ^ Behnegarsoft.com (2018-12-09). "شهسوار [جهان پهلوان تختی]". سینما حقیقت (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  16. ^ Behnegarsoft.com (2019-07-06). "ده، یک، شصت و یک". سینما حقیقت (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-07-14.