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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Nowrasteh, Cyrus
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Date of birth
19 September 1956, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Mini biography
Cyrus Nowrasteh (September 19, 1956, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Cyrus Nowrasteh was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.
He attended New Mexico State University on a tennis scholarship but later transferred to U.S.C. to study in their renowned School of Cinema.
While teaching tennis in Los Angeles, he wrote screenplays. His first break came in 1983 when he was hired by Universal Studios to do a rewrite on a project entitled "Bikers." Mr. Nowrasteh says this first job was a disaster because he tried "to please everybody."
“I don’t sit down and sort of list things I want people to take away from what I think I’m trying to say in a film. I’ve never done that in my entire career. For me, it’s all about the story: Is it a story that touches me? Is it a movie that I want to see? Is there an emotional connection for me? That’s all I want from a story.”
Two years later he wrote his first produced script for the CBS TV series "The Equalizer" (1985), which led him to work predominantly in series television for the next five years. He also wrote scripts on assignment for various producers and studios, the best regarded being "Black Jack" and "Murder At Nha Trang" for Interscope Productions.
His move into directing began on the independent front with "Norma Jean, Jack, And Me," a zany comedy about a young drifter who washes up on an island and discovers that Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy are alive and well! It starred Sally Kirkland and Michael Murphy and became a festival favorite throughout the world.
Cyrus Nowrasteh recently wrote and directed the Paramount/Showtime production The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV), which starred Richard Dreyfuss. Produced by Oliver Stone, The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV) received rave reviews and a number of awards including the Pen USA West Literary Award for Best Teleplay 2001-2002.
Presently, he is developing a four-hour mini-series on John Dillinger for the USA network which Mr. Nowrasteh will write and direct. Also as writer/director, Mr. Nowrasteh is developing "3rd Down" and "Forever" with Chris Columbus' 1492 productions.
Some of his other writing credits include Showtime's 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) (TV)(a dramatization of Black activist A. Philip Randolph's struggles in leading the Pullman Strike), the independent 1996 Sundance hit, "The Interview," Nikita(1997)_, the pilot for the hit USA Network series, _La Femme Nikita_, and the adaptation of 'Alan Dershowitz'' novel, The Advocate's Devil (1997) (TV) for ABC. Nowrasteh has also received numerous credits as a writer/producer on such television series as "The Equalizer" (1985), and D.E.A.
As a screenwriter, he is writing "Juarez" for Warner Brothers and Robert Lawrence Productions, "Andrews' Raiders" for Kennedy/Marshall and Universal, and "Personal Injuries" for Punch Productions and 'Dustin Hoffman'. His wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, is a screenwriter.
Director - Selected filmography
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Infidel (2020)
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The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
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