Farid Mostafavi

Farid Mostafavi (Persian: فرید مصطفوی‎), born 27 October 1954 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian screenwriter best known for his social realist films set in urban Tehran, several of which were directed and co-written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. ^[1][2][3]

Education

Mostafavi attended the "Institute of Cinema and Television" in 1979 and studied economics at Tehran University.

Career

His career in IRIB began in 1989 and later expanded to film.^[4] He has worked as writer and co-producer on "An Outlook to the Cinema", a thirteen-part television program about cinema (1983–1984), as assistant director on "The World Satirist", a ten-part television play (1984–1986), as voice-over writer for documentary films on "Centrality" (directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad) and "Immigrants" (directed by F. Shafaee), and as researcher and screenwriter on "Crossing from Iran Deserts", a documentary/fiction series (1997).

Filmography

• Kharej az Mahdudeh (1986 - aka Off-Limits)^[5]
• Payizan (1987)
• Rooz-e Bashokouh (1989 - aka The Grand Day)
• Zard-e Qanari (1988 - aka Canary Yellow)
• Pul-e Khareji (1989 - aka Foreign Currency)
• Omid (1991)
• Badal (1994 - aka The Stuntman)
• Roya-ye nime-shab-e tabestan (1994 - aka The Midnight Summer's Dream)
• Zir-e Pust-e Shahr (2001 - aka Under the Skin of the City)^[6][7]
• Zendan-e Zanan (2002 - aka Women's Prison)
• Zahr-e Asal (2003 - aka Honey Bane)
• Gilane (2005) ^[8][9][10]
• Taghato (2006 - aka Crossroads)
• Asr-e Jome (2006 - aka Friday Evening)
• Khunbazi (2006 - aka Mainline)
• Zaadboom (2009 - aka Birthplace)
• Ghesseh-ha (2014 - aka Tales)^[11][12]

Honors and Awards

• Best Screenplay Award, House of Cinema Festival (for Women's Prison)
• Best Screenplay Award, House of Cinema Festival (for Crossroads, with Abolhassan Davoudi)
• Best Screenplay Award, International Fajr Film Festival (for Khunbazi, with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab and Naghmeh Samini)
• Best Screenplay Award, International Fajr Film Festival (for Birthplace, with Abolhassan Davoudi)
• Best Screenplay Award, 71st Venice International Film Festival (for Tales, with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)^[13][14]

References

External links

• Farid Mostafavi at the Internet Movie Database