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André Singer’s master class in “Cinema Verite”

reporter 1222 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 11:30:49 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – André Singer’s master class in “Cinema Verite”. singer is a British documentary film-maker, as well as an anthropologist. He is currently CEO of Spring Films Ltd of London, a Professorial Research Associate at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland from 2014-2018.

Born in London, he studied at University Hall, Buckland and then at first Keble College and subsequently Exeter College, Oxford University under Professor Sir E.E.”André Singer is slated to hold an online master class at Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.”

Evans-Pritchard, specializing in Iran and Afghanistan for his doctorate. He started working in television in the early 1970s as a researcher, then as a producer and director for the Disappearing World series at Granada Television, eventually taking over from Brian Moser as the Series Editor.

As a director, Singer has made many award-winning films, including the Strangers Abroad series, Khyber, Night Will Fall, Where the Wind Blew, Meeting Gorbachev with Werner Herzog, and Witchcraft Among the Azande.

In television he has worked for several broadcasters, serving as Commissioning editor for Discovery Channel, Europe; Senior Vice-President for Alliance Atlantis; and heading the Independent Documentary Unit at the BBC.

At the BBC, he founded and commissioned works for the Fine Cut series, working with such international filmmakers as Jean Rouch, Werner Herzog, DA Pennebaker, Bob Drew, Fred Wiseman, and Vikram Jayanti. “André Singer is slated to hold an online master class at Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.”

In the independent sector, Singer has been instrumental in several production companies including InCa, Café Productions, West Park Pictures, and currently Spring Films.

He has been responsible in an executive or producer role for hundreds of documentary productions for cinema and television, including the Oscar-nominated Prisoner of Paradise (directed by Malcolm Clarke); Game Over Kasparov and the Machine (Vikram Jayanti); and the International Critics Award-winning film, The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog).

Since 1992, Singer has worked with Herzog as a producer or executive producer on fourteen productions, including Into the Abyss (2011). He and Lucki Stipetic were producers for Herzog’s documentary, Into the Inferno (2016), about mankind’s relationship with volcanoes; and in 2019 on Fireball co-directed by Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer about the world of asteroids. “André Singer is slated to hold an online master class at Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.”

In 2018, he has co-directed with Werner Herzog a feature documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev called Meeting Gorbachev based around several encounters between Herzog and the last President of the USSR.

The singer was also an Executive Producer on the multi-award-winning documentaries including The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), by Joshua Oppenheimer.

His film as director, “Where the Wind Blew” (2017) about the legacy of nuclear bomb testing during the Cold War in Kazakhstan and Nevada won the Raven Award for Best Feature documentary at DocUtah, the Utah International Documentary Film Festival.

“Night Will Fall” was awarded two Focal Awards, a Peabody Award, and Best Documentary at the Moscow Jewish Film Festival in 2015; it won the Royal Television Society Award for Historical Documentary and the Emmy for Outstanding Historical Film (Long-form) in 2016. It was shown to over 70 million people worldwide.

The singer was given the Oscar Pomilio Award for Ethics in Pescara, Italy in 2015.

He is the author of five books of non-fiction including, with his wife Lynette, Divine Magic: The World of the Supernatural.

The singer was elected President of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2014 and was awarded their Patrons Medal in 2007.

He is an Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Anthropology at the University of Southern California and a Visiting Professor of Film at the University of Westminster since 2014.

He was on the Film and Television Committee of BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, between 2010 and 2013.

The singer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to anthropology and the documentary film industry. “André Singer is slated to hold an online master class at Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.”

Directed by Mohammad Hamidi-Moqadam, the “Cinema Verite” is scheduled to be held in Tehran on Dec 8-14, 2020 in an online format via utilizing the national platform.

The national competition section comprises the short, mid-length, and feature-length documentaries and the international section of this edition will be held in non-competition format due to the spread of coronavirus.

The international section of the festival also enjoys numerous non-competition sections such Special Displays, Mirror of a Festival, Portrait, Perspective of One Country Documentary Cinema, Chile Documentary Cinema, Masters of 2020 as well as 13 Editions & 13 Films.”André Singer is slated to hold an online master class at Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.”

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Famous Iraq director to make a joint film with Iran

reporter 1222 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:00:48 +0000

Famous Iraqi-Dutch film director Mohamed Al-Daradji is going to make his new film in cooperation with Iran, saying that he would like to introduce the two nations’ culture to the world through cinema.

“The eight years of war between Iran and Iraq caused a lot of destruction but long after that when Iraq once again got involved in war, the Iranians came to our support while this also caused some confusions and misunderstandings. Therefore, we decided to answer them,” Al-Daradji told the Islamic Republic News Agency.

“Of course, these misunderstandings approached people who do not know much about Iran and Iraq shared culture and origins, and only bring back the memory of eight-years war,” he added.

Making a joint film is both financially and culturally reasonable and effective, he said.

A joint cinema production increases contacts between nations, especially in the Middle East, which is full of contradictions and misunderstandings.

He noted “the media in the world depict Iranian culture unrealistically,” stressing “by making a joint film, we intend to introduce the culture of the two nations better to the world and different from that of the Western media image.”

He further pointed out that making a joint Iranian film with other countries, especially with the Arab world, can have much greater effect on bringing countries closer to each other than what politicians do.

Mohamed Al-Daradji (born 6 August 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-Dutch film director. He studied theater in Iraq, and cinematography and directing in England. He is known for his drama films, which focus on political affairs in the Middle East and their effects on interpersonal relationships.

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Iranian ‘Mr. Director’ awarded in Spanish festival

reporter 1222 — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:04:35 +0000

TEHRAN– ‘Mr. Director’ directed by Ali Erfan Farhadi won a prize worth 200 euros and a statuette at the Spanish film festival ‘Atlantis Film Awards.’

The Spanish festival has been organized to screen social films, and Farhadi’s film was featured in a special section dedicated to narcotics.

The Atlantis Film Award Festival initially received 300 films from 20 countries, and selected and screened 50 of them on December 28 – 29.

The summary of ‘Mr. Director’ reads “some boys and girls are playing in an alleyway; Sina has a box in his hands using it as a camera.”

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“Friday Evening” director makes doc on Iranian immigrants in Germany

reporter 1222 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 05:26:47 +0000

TEHRAN – Mona Zandi-Haqiqi, the director of the acclaimed drama “Friday Evening”, has completed a documentary about Iranian immigrants in Germany.

Producer Alireza Shojanuri has submitted the 52-minute documentary “A Nibble of Sleep” to the 11th edition of the Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival for documentary cinema, the Documentary and Experimental Film Center announced on Wednesday.

The film provides deep insights into how the newly-arrived Iranian immigrants in Germany connect with the generations of Iranians who have chosen to live in Germany, and those children born in an Iranian family in the country over the past 25 years.

Zandi-Haqiqi has made “A Nibble of Sleep” after a long hiatus. She made her debut film “Friday Evening”, about a woman called Sogand and her son Omid, who are shunned by her family and consequently experience hard times, in 2006.

The film brought her several awards in Iranian and international events, including the Silver Alexander Special Jury Award as well its 22,000-euro cash prize at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.

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