Jano Rosebiani

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Jano Rosebiani (Kurdish: Cano Rojbeyanî) is a Kurdish/American film writer, director and editor.

Biography

Rosebiani was born in the small town of Zumar on the banks of the Tigress (18 March 1960) and was raised in the town of Zakho by the biblical River Khabur. Rosebiani joined the major Kurdish revolt of 1974 against the Iraqi regime and two years later he was granted political asylum in the United States at the age of 16.

Rosebiani acquired his knowledge of filmmaking during his college years in the mid eighties while managing movie theaters and making experimental videos for a local television channel that received local and national awards, among them the Hometown USA prize in 1987. He was a recipient of Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges in 1986. Upon graduating from NOVA in 1988 he moved to Los Angele to embark on a filmmaking career.

Rosebiani made his feature film debut with DANCE OF THE PENDULUM in 1995, a low budget intellectual comedy parodying exploitation in Hollywood's B-movies shot entirely in a house in the Hollywood Hills. The film was distributed in over a dozen countries.

JIYAN (Life) is his first Kurdish film made in 2002, intended to be a window to the world for the Kurds. The film received high critical acclaim, including four-star ratings by The Guardian and BBC World, and became a festival favorite, garnering awards in Portugal, Italy, Israel and the United States.

Rosebiani's film CHAPLIN OF THE MOUNTAINS is about a female victim of the Anfal campaign|Anfal genocide in search of her roots. The film was shot with an ensemble cast of American, European and Kurdish actors. It is the first English language film to be shot in the Kurdish countryside.

Rosebiani’s film, ÊK MOMIK, DU MOMIK (One Candle, Two Candles) is a parody to domestic violence and honor-related crimes against women. It was filmed in the town of Akré in Southern Kurdistan in 2010 and completed in 2013.

Rosebiani has also made a handful of documentaries, most notably SADDAM'S MASS GRAVES in 2004 and Chemical Ali’s Anfal in 2005. Both films were distributed worldwide and were utilized domestically by the State Department to justify the war in Iraq.

Rosebiani was dubbed as one of the top 35 filmmakers by Belgian photographer Kris Dewitte in his 2003 celebrity book, Cineasten Uit De Schaduw (Filmmakers From The Shadows).

Filmography  

  • Dance of the Pendulum - 1995 
  • Jiyan (Life) - 2002
  • Saddam’s Mass Graves (documentary) - 2004    
  • Chemical Ali’s Anfal (documentary) - 2005
  • Radyo Qelat (Radio Citadel) (Sitcom) - 2007   
  • Chaplin of the Mountains - 2013    
  • One Candle, Two Candles - 2013

Awards

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