Argo took Oscar 2013 for best film award, announced by Michelle Obama and followed by an emotional speech by Ben Affleck thanking friends in Iran who are in a "terrible circumstance now." Other highlights: Daniel Day-Lewis became the first person ever to win a third best actor ...
[http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-film/inside-iranian-cinema-part-1-of-3 Vice Media]: Iranian filmmakers are among most prolific and influential in the world today, and Iranian government's influence over the film industry is unlike any other. Shane Smith traveled to Iran, to ...
Mohammad Shirvani's "Fat Shaker" is the first Iranian film that premiered at the prestigious [http://www.sundance.org/festival/ Sundance film festival] last month, but it has also been declared "anti-Iranian" by some "fundamentalist websites" inside Iran, according to [http://www ...
Hollywood Reporter has recently published stories about two major international film festivals in 2013, which will host Iranian film makers or actors, on the jury or as contestants:/Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong/“Over the past six years, the Asian Film Awards have helped to ...
January 23, 2013. Julian Assange discusses American and Israeli plots against Iran in a Videolink address to the [http://www.oxford-union.org/ Oxford Union Society] during Sam Adams Awards. Related News: [http://news.kodoom ...
A portion of the Turkish TV series "Şefkat Tepe" (Compassion Hill) is shown below. The series focuses on the border of Iran and Turkey and is produced by Turkish TV production company [http://www.stv.com.tr/dizi/16_sefkat-tepe/ Samanyolu] (Milky Way). The story is about terrorist ...
As part of a Director Roundtable published in [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ben-affleck-quentin-tarantino-4-394576 The Hollywood Reporter (link)], Ben Affleck has shared that one of his worst moments as a film director was in "Argo" with a Persian-speaking actor who was ...
Finally American TV is not casting Iranians as violent terrorists thanks to "Shahs of Sunset," BRAVO's new reality TV series about hedonistic lifestyles of wealthy Iranian Americans. This week's poolside pictures of Mercedes Javid, a real character in the show, in a "tiny" bikini ...
This week, famed Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Aria [http://www.screendaily.com/news/africa-middle-east-news/pinto-apted-barreto-among-dubai-film-festival-jurors/5049678.article was selected] as a member of Jury for the Muhr AsiaAfrica Feature competition in The Dubai ...
Progressive Iranian-American filmmaker Shirin Neshat recently addressed a packed hall at the American University in Cairo, Egypt for her first public speech in a Muslim country. In her speech, Neshat drew parallels between the Iranian and Egyptian revolutions and dissected her ...
