Mostafa Azizi

Mostafa Azizi

Mostafa Azizi
Born September 20, 1962
Arak, Iran
Residence Toronto
Occupation Film producer, screenwriter
Years active 1986–present
Website
http://mostafazizi.net

Mostafa Azizi (Persian: مصطفی عزیزی) (born September 20, 1962) is an Iranian Television producer and screenwriter.[1]

Biography

Azizi was born in Arak. A graduate of theoretical economics from Tehran University, he started his professional life as a writer and editor of educational and scientific programs in the Iranian National Radio in 1986. In 1990, he moved to television and became the director of Computer Animation Unit (CAU). In 1994, he left the IRIB as an employee to open up the "Kelk-e-Khial" as a private film-producing company.

In 2010, a collection of short stories authored by him in the Persian language were published in Iran under the title of I am Raymond Carver.[2] Carver, an American author of the 1960s, is said to be a major influence on his work.[3] Since 2010, Azizi resides in Toronto where he is the director of Alternate Dream Productions Inc.

Arrest

Azizi returned to Tehran to visit his relatives in January 2015. On February 1, he was arrested reportedly charged with "insulting Iran's supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and also "spreading propaganda" against the Islamic establishment. [4][5] [6]


Filmography

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ http://shahrgon.net/pdf-archive/Year2012/1179/pdf/1179-033.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/9643696480
  3. ↑ http://www.radiozamaneh.com/content/%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%C2%AB%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%87%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%C2%BB-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%81%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C?page=2
  4. ↑ http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-screenwriter-producer-jailed/26925724.html
  5. ↑ http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/29/iranian-television-producer-jailed-in-irans-evin-prison/
  6. ↑ http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/231480403

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