Houshang Golmakani is an Iranian journalist, film critic and director. He was born in Gorgan on March 23, 1954. Houshang Golmakani started his professional career in 1972 as a journalist and film critic for Tehran Economist. He graduated in cinema and television from the College of Dramatic Arts of Tehran in 1982.
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He is one of the three founders of Film (Iranian magazine), the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Massoud Mehrabi and Abbas Yari).[1] In 1993, Film (Iranian magazine) began to print an English version of the magazine for its international readers, FILM International, the only English magazine solely about Iranian cinema.[2]
Houshang Golmakani is also a writer and a director. He directed a documentary about the life and works of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, STARDUST-STRICKEN; Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait (1996).[3] He writes books about cinema and translate screenplays.[4]
Works
editTranslation of screenplays
editHoushang Golmakani has translated over 14 screenplays including the following:
- Paris, Texas (1st edition: 1989;2d edition:1997; 3d edition: 2002)
- The White Sheik, Variety Lights (1992)
- La Strada (1995)
- La Notte (1997)
- Cinema Paradiso (1999)
Books/Other publications
edit- The Gentleman Actor (1st edition: 1997; 2d edition:2010)
- The Sound of Music (2000)
- From Sam Alley
- Tangna (Narrow), book (2007)
- Golmakani, Houshang (1992). "New times, same problems". Index on Censorship. 21 (3): 19–22. doi:10.1080/03064229208535304. S2CID 144499359.
- Golmakani, Houshang (2009). "Film in Iran: The Magazine and the Movies". Nieman Reports. 63 (2): 26–27. ISSN 0028-9817.
Houshang Golmakan was also the producer and director of the film Stardust Stricken, Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait in 1996.[5]
Contributions as a Jury
edit- Member of FIPRESCI jury at the Leipzig documentary film festival, 1998 [6]
- Member of jury at the Tbilissi film festival, 2007
- Member of NETPAC jury at Antalya film festival, 2007
- Member of jury at Didar film festival, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2008
- Member of NETPAC (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema)
- Member of selection committee for foreign movies, International Fajr festival, Tehran, (1998–2002)
- Member of jury of the 32nd Fajr Film Festival, 2013
- Member of jury for a foreign film, Fajr International Festival, 2017
- Member of jury of the 2nd American Sheid Film Festival, 2017
Awards
edit- Honorary Award, Cinema House Celebration, 2007
- Best Art Critics Award, Journalists Foundation, 2008
- Award for the Most Influential Critic of the last thirty years in Iran, Art Critics Association, 2008
External links
editNotes
edit- ^ Film in Iran: The Magazine and the Movies in Niemann Reports, Niemann Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
- ^ Who's who Archived 2010-08-16 at the Wayback Machine on NETPAC website
- ^ Biography Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine on Makhmalbaf Filmhouse's website
- ^ "Houshang Golmakani". Art Magazine.
- ^ "Stardust Stricken, Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait". The University of Arizona.
- ^ "40th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film". FIPRESCI.
- Udden, James (2014). "The Other Film International". Film International. 12 (3): 96–105. doi:10.1386/fiin.12.3.96_1.