Sam Chegini

Sam Chegini

Sam Chegini (left) with UNIMA General Secretary, Jacques Trudeau

Sam Chegini (left) with UNIMA General Secretary, Jacques Trudeau (right) and a Dr. Teeth Muppet replica at the 'International Student Puppetry Festival', Tehran, Iran (2011)
Born Sam Chegini
27 January 1992
Tehran, Iran
Nationality IranIranian
Known for Illustration, Music video, Video art, Graphic design, Puppetry
Notable work The Lyre of Mesopotamia (2009)
Traveller (2012)
Awards Royal Reel Award for Traveller (2013), 2nd place Boomtown Film & Music Festival for Traveller (2013), Persbook Art Award for the Lyre of Mesopotamia
Website
http://www.samchegini.com

Sam Chegini (Persian: سام چگینی) is an award winning Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1992 in an artistic family.

In 2009 Sam joined VOP (Voice of Peace), a group that worked on reconstructing ancient Persian musical instruments, sponsored by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and IAARA. He made the artistic film The Lyre of Mesopotamia, which received an award for 'best video art' in the 1st Persbookart Contest on Facebook in 2010. In 2011 Dutch singer/songwriter Linde Nijland asked him to make a music video for her song "Traveller",[1] after having seen a video he made for the song 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' by Chris de Burgh. ‫Traveller has been the official selection of many prestigious music video and film festivals around the globe and has been screened in different countries so far.[2] In 2013, Sam won the Royal Reel Award from Canada International Film Festival for this music video and it was also voted no. 1 in the Frisian charts in the Klipkar+TV programme.[3]

Filmography

Year English title Original title Transliteration
2006-2007 Words Like A Dream کلماتی همچو رویا Kalamati hamcho Roya
2009 The Lyre of Mesopotamia بربط بین النهرین Barbat-e-Beynolnahreyn
2011 A Spaceman Came Travelling مرد بیگانه سفر می کند Marde Biganeh Safar Mikonad
2012 Traveller مسافر Mosafer

Puppetry

Year English title Original title Transliteration
2014 The City of Mice 2 شهر موش ها 2 Shahr-e-Moosh ha 2
2012 Iran Student Puppetry Festival جشنواره دانشجویی تئاتر عروسکی Jashnvare Theatr-e-Arousaki
2011 Moon Kids theatre نمایش بچه های ماه Bachehay-e-Maah
2011 Sunflower TV series (8th Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی آفتابگردان 8 Aaftaabgardan
2009 Sunflower TV series (5th Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی آفتابگردان 5 Aaftaabgardan
2009 Goldooneha TV Series (2nd Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی گلدونه ها 2 Goldooneha
2008 Sunflower TV Series (4th Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی آفتابگردان 4 Aftabgardan
2008 Goldooneha TV Series (1st Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی گلدونه ها 1 Goldooneha
2007 Sunflower TV Series(2nd Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی آفتابگردان 2 Aftabgardan
2007 Sunflower TV Series(2nd Series) مجموعه تلویزیونی آفتابگردان 2 Aftabgardan

Awards

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Folkforum report of Noordfolk festival
  2. ↑ Traveller (2012 music video)
  3. ↑ Klipkar+ March 16, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iV0NPCxruyg
  4. ↑ http://www.thirteen.org/reel13/shorts/traveller/
  5. ↑ "2013 CIFF Award Winners and Official Selections". http://www.canadafilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  6. ↑ "MY HERO website". http://myhero.com. Retrieved 2013-11-28.
  7. ↑ "BN DeStem". http://www.bndestem.nl. Retrieved 2013-02-28.

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