The third Iranian Documantry film festival” Cinema Haghighat” with the motto ” Documentary films for everyone” has been inagurated in Felestin Movie theater in Tehran on Thursday 16th of October despite sanctions by some famous Iranian directors.
Mirasse Farda News desk reports that three specialized workshops are to be held from 19 to 21 October on subjects: “architecture and urban planning” , “anthropology” and “mass media and documentary film” incorporating artists and university professors.
Due to the fact that last year the festival enjoyed a special ” visual anthropology” workshop with the presence of distinguished professor “Haidman” and outstanding Iranian artists, it was expected that we follow the trend in the current year, but that was not fulfilled and the festival only has a one-day workshop on anthropology featuring Dr Jalaloddin Rafi far, faculty member of Tehran university anthropology department at social sciences college on Sunday morning from 9:30 to 12 open to public.
The festival will be held for 6 days and will be ended by presenting awards to the selected works.
Music department of Soore Institute will hold preparation classes for Ethnomusicology since 5th Nov 2008 which will be taught for two terms by Dr. Mohsen Hajjarian , a member of Soore scientific board.
Ethnomusicology is a compound word that refers to a science which studies the music of different parts of the world. The experts of this knowledge search and collect music documents and promote ethnic and traditional music in accordance with the societies’ requirements. Read more…
Upon the request of IRIB, the book titled “Ethnography scope and issues” is about to be published by miras-e-farda Institute.
Introducing the book as the first ethnography comprehensive pattern in Iran, the author of the book and the managing director of Miras-e-farda Institute , Mohammad sadegh Deghati najd, declared :”Ethnography scope and issues consists of two parts, the first part features theoretical issues on ethnography and monography while representing a history of ethnography and monography in Iran. The second part is a comprehensive ethnography pattern in 14 distinct area in every of which various and different issues are set forth, where each issue can be considered as a single topic in ethnography and case studies. Read more…
Iran’s second international documentary festival ( Cinema Verite) was held in Tehran where Iranian documentary filmmakers warmly welcomed great documentary filmmakers of the world. Amongst the guests of the festival, one person was different than the others. Richard Leacock, who is considered as the grandfather and the last remaining member of the first generation of documentary filmmakers, was attending the festival with his wife and colleague. Read more…
Closing Ceremony of Iran’s documentary festival ( Cinema Verite) was held on Saturday 18th October in Vahdat hall where great documentary filmmakers of Iran and other countries were attending.
The special guest of this ceremony, and of course of the whole festival, was Richard Leacock, the last remaining member of the first generation of documentary filmmakers who was traveling to Iran at the age of 90. Read more…
First workshop of Cinema Verite’s festival with the subject of ‘contemporary ethnographical documentary Cinema’ was held this morning in Saba cultural center in Tehran by attendance of Prof. Heideman , visual anthropology professor from L.M.U. university of Munich, as the head and lecturer of the workshop. Read more…
According to an announcement made by the “Islamic Culture & Relations Organization” , Iran’s cultural attaché in Spain and Vitoria Municipality are to hold an Iranian culture week titled : “Iran , the Gate to the East” from August 15 to September 18, 2008 in Vitoria; the capital city of Basque County. Read more…
In a private interview with Miras-e-farda , “Farhad Varahram “ a distinguished documentary filmmaker who makes ethnographical documentaries, announced the production of “The Land of Sun “ which is a narrative about the nature and culture of “oramanat” , a region in western Iran. Read more…
A meeting attended by Mr. Mohammad Tahaminezhad and Dr. Pedram Khosronezhad was held in The Cinema House on Wednesday Oct.22. According to Mojtaba Mirtahmaseb – the manager of The Association for Documentary Film-makers – who hosted the meeting, the purpose behind the meeting was to talk about “The First Conference on Visual Anthropology of Iran. The first round of the conference had been held in St. Andrews University in Scotland in June, 2008. According to Dr. Khosronezhad – the anthropology professor of the University – the conference is to be held biennially in Scotland. He also referred to some of the achievements of the conference as follows: allocation of one day of The Conference on Anthropology Films of the Scandinavian Countries for Iranian anthropology films, acquaintance of the students of St. Andrews University with the anthropology of Iran, selection of Iran as the research center, and also the world’s greatest professors’ acquaintance with anthropology films of Iran. Read more…
On occasion of global handicrafts day (9th of June), the cultural heritage, handicrafts & tourism organization is going to organize the national festival of handicrafts in Tabriz from 8th till 13th of June.
One part of this festival is dedicated to photos and films related to traditional arts and handicrafts which will be inaugurated on the second day of the festival (which is called the day of handicrafts, creativity and its role in maintenance of national identity)