Zainul Abdin: In this year’s portfolio, we have Farabi, the director of his first short film

According to Fars news agency, Majid Zainul Abdin, CEO of Farabi Cinema Foundation, attended Mellat Cinema Campus on Monday evening, November 1st. After visiting different sections of the 40th Tehran International Short Film Festival, he said: The directors of the first film and the cinematographers active in the short film are the talents and future hopes of Iranian cinema. The path of professional cinema starts from short films. At Farabi Cinema Foundation, we pay attention to filmmakers in this field. Currently, the Oliva film club is doing a good job at the Farabi Cinema Foundation and checks the professional qualification of Oliva films.

In response to what support measures Farabi has in mind for short film filmmakers, he continued: If filmmakers from the Tehran Short Film Festival are interested in making their own feature films and their work is compatible with our mechanisms, we hope to be able to support their work. .

About the ways of identifying young cinema talents, Zainul Abdin said: Good films and talents are identified during this short film festival in Tehran. Our relationship with good young filmmakers is also established through the Iranian Youth Cinema Association, some filmmakers have also registered in the First Film Club of Farabi Cinema Foundation and provided samples of their works and records. These are the solutions that determine the relationship with young children who are prone to cinema.

He said about the work process of the selected filmmakers of the Tehran Short Film Festival, who received Farabi’s support last year to make their first feature film, he said: So far, there has not been an opportunity to review, but he must have seriously thought about the work of the young filmmakers who received support last year. we do. Also, this year in the portfolio of Farabi’s productions, we definitely have a director of the first film, and these filmmakers have come from short films. The path of filmmaking at Farabi Cinema Foundation has become a facilitated path for young and active short film filmmakers. I hope we can support the winners of this year’s Tehran Short Film Festival.

He also said about the reception of the 40th Tehran International Short Film Festival: Fortunately, the reception of the festival was very enthusiastic this year and the theaters were full of spectators. It is a happy thing that both the audience and filmmakers have attended a film event with great desire.

The 40th Tehran International Short Film Festival, under the direction of Mehdi Azarpandar, will end its work tonight, Tuesday, November 2, with the presentation of the winners at Milad Tower.

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