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Title: Persian Cinema


1
Persian Cinema
  • Valerie Saporito
  • November 30th, 2007

2
Fade in to Scene 1.The Beginning
  • First Persian filmmaker was Mirza Ebrahim Khan
    Akkas Bashi
  • First movie theater was built in Tehran in 1904
  • First film school, Parvareshgahe Artistiye Cinema
    (The Cinema Artist Educational Centre), was
    established in 1925 by Ovanes Ohanian
  • First film with sound (Lor Girl) was produced in
    1932
  • National Iranian Film society is established in
    1949

3
Cut to Scene 2. (The 1960s)Pre-revolutionary
Cinema
  • 25 commercial films produced annually during this
    time
  • Focused on melodramas and thrillers
  • Ganj-e-Qarun (Croesus Treasure), 1965, began a
    new genre in Iran the tragic action drama

4
Angle onPost-revolutionary Cinema
  • Filmmakers begin to enter their work into
    international festivals
  • Abbas Kiarostami puts Iran on the map by winning
    the Palm dOr at the Cannes Film Festival for
    Taste of Cherry (1997)
  • In 1998, Iranian government funded filmmakers
    producing ethnic films

5
Establishing shotContemporary Iranian Film
  • Commercial cinema
  • New Wave films
  • Womens cinema

6
Cont.Commercial Cinema
  • Separated into TWO CATEGORIES
  • Films about the victory of the Iranian Revolution
    of 1979, filled with strong religious and
    national motifs.
  • Formulaic films starring popular actors
  • Crowd-pleasing comedies
  • Romantic melodramas
  • Family comedies

7
Cont.New Wave Films
  • Innovative art films with highly political and
    philosophical tones and poetic language
  • Took flight with the films of Kiarostami
  • Emerged due to intellectual and political
    movements of the time
  • A few names in Iranian New Wave
  • Jafar Panahi
  • Majid Majidi
  • Babak Payami

8
Cont.Womens Cinema
  • Following the New Wave movement, many women
    emerged as talented Iranian filmmakers
  • Most notable woman Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
  • Made films and documentaries about social
    pathology
  • Also, Samira Makhmalbaf
  • Directed her first film, The Apple, at the age of
    17
  • Won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2000 for The
    Blackboard
  • In 2006, Marjane Satrapi received a position on
    the Cannes Film Festival jury.

9
Begin titles.Festival Wins and Nominations
  • CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (France)
  • 2007 Grand Prize of the Jury Marjane Satrapi
  • 2004 Golden Camera Mohsen Amiryoussefi
  • 2003 Jury prize Samira Makhmalbaf
  • 1997 Golden Palm Abbas Kiarostami
  • ACADEMY AWARDS
  • 2007 Best Sound Editing (win) for Apocolypto
    Kami Asgar
  • 2004 Best Supporting Actress (nom) for House of
    Sand and Fog Shorheh Aghdashloo
  • 1999 Best Foreign Film (nom) for Children of
    Heaven Majid Majidi

10
End titles.Censorship
  • Although Persian films are flourishing,
    filmmakers have always operated under severe
    censorship laws
  • Some Iranian films which are critically acclaimed
    in other countries are banned in Iran
  • Actors can no show affection toward each other
  • Women must wear covering, even when portrayed at
    home
  • Films depicting stories that are against the
    regime are banned
  • Filmmakers can get around these censors by
  • Getting exports to enter international festivals
  • Self-censorship, or the filmmakers choice to
    avoid controversial topics
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