Founder of 5PhotoAward, Director, Film Maker, Photographer
Mehdi Shadizadeh is founder of 5Photoaward, he maked Documentary film about Abbas Kiarostami, the name is “Walking with the Wind” and “Single Tree” and “Dejhavoo”. He Attended more than ten domestic and foreign Exhibition.
cultural institute art Amordad.
Director- producer and documentary
Producer of the movie Dzhavu anad screened in art and experience department
Semi – length documentary making (First impression)and attendance at the us Elensburg competition
Short film making (room) and candidate for polish Grand off
Short film making (step five) and attendance at the international jaffalo festival in Italy
Attending solo and collective galleries insid and outsid the country
Atending the prestigious fabr gallery in Albany for the collection of photo s under the bark of trees.
Atending at the Insomina Gallery for the collection of photos under the bark of trees along with other artists from other countries.
Atending in the Albanian museum of contemporary art for the collection of under the bark of trees
Presence in the most prestigious arts in the word along with artists of all over the word
Mohammad Hassan Saadat Handi is a photographer and producer of Iranian cinema. He started his career in the theater in 1376. He is a member of the cinema house and a member of the board of directors and the Iranian Cinema Photographers Association. He is a member of the producers of Iranian cinema. And he was the managing director and chairman of the board of directors of Simorgh Nama Art Cultural Institute. He was selected as the best photographers of Iranian cinema in 2017. He was the secretary and chairman of the 8th celebration and competition of Iranian cinema photographers.
He is the advisor for the campus affairs of the Shahbar Cultural Institute and the director of the Mellat Cinematic Campus. He has been in more than 20 feature films as a photographer, producer and production manager.
Presence in louisioun Gallery in Istanbul city for the collection of the crows along with other artists of turkey.
Holding a solo exhibition of the tomorrow Gallery for the collection of photo s minimal in the snow.
Presence in Ehsan Gallery with the collection of photos the rain of behind glass(window) along with other artists.
Presence in Aprik Gllery with the collection of photos the rian of behind the glass (window) along with other artists
Born in İzmir, 1990. In 2008, she studied Latin Dances and Spanish at Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico. “Obezonlar” (2010), “Dönüşüm” (2011) and “Consensus” (2012) trilogy films are her well-known short films. In 2013, she graduated from Dokuz Eylül FOFA, Department of Film Design. In 2015, she founded Taranç & Taranç Film Production. In 2017, she has completed her MAF at Marmara University. In 2016, she directed and produced her first independent feature film, “Wish to Wash in Rains”, and received Audience Award at the 53rd Antalya Film Festival. “Snails” was awarded with the “Meeting on The Bridge Award” in 2021; also selected for the 2nd round of consideration for the 2022 “Development Track” in Sundance Film Lab. She is the founder and director of the “International Women Filmmakers Festival (IWFF TURKEY)” (est: 2018). She continues to write & compose her own songs. Digital album available on Spotify.
FILMOGRAPHY
FEATURE FILMS
YAĞMURLARDA YIKANSAM (2016)
Festivals & Awards:
53.Antalya Film Festival, Motley Audience Award, Turkey, 2016
Balkan Film Food Festival, Best Film Award, Pogradec, Albania, August 2016
Barcelona International Film Festival, The Gold Lion Award, Spain, June 2016
ISENMA International Student-Newcomer-Woman Filmmaker Film Festival, Best
International Feature Film Film, Gold Award, Endonesia, November 2016
4.Antakya Film Festival, Special Mention Best Engaged Film Turkey, November,2016
I Filmmaker International Film Festival, Special Mention, Spain, December 2016
9.Rofife Director Achievement Award, Mersin, Turkey, 2017
SHORT FILMS & DOCUMANTRIES
Sadıkbey(2023) Editor/Producer
Consensus (2012) Director
3rd International Izmir Women’s Festival, Active Women Award
DEU, Faculty of Fine Arts, Şenel Aksu Award the Best Thesis
İKFD (Istanbul Short Filmmakers Association), 11th National Short Film Festival, 1st
Prize, Fiction Category (Consensus)
Dönüşüm “dönüşebildiğimiz kadar” (Metamorphosis “as much as we can
metamorphose”) (2012)
3rd Identita Short Film Festival, Italy, 3rd Prize (public choice), Fiction category.
10th Environmental Short Film Festival, National Short Film Contest, 3rd Prize,
Fiction Category
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Gökçe Sezer) Best Actress Award
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Meryem Şahin) Best Screenplay Award
Anadolu’nun Son Karatabağı (The Last Leather Craftsman of Anatolia) (2012)
Kaçan Kovalanır (2011)
2nd Manisa Golden Grape Short Film Festival, 2nd Prize, Fiction Category
Obezonlar (Obezons) (2011)
Yolculuk (The Trip) (2010)
Nedensiz (Without a Reason) (2010)
Pembe Mariachi (The Pink Mariachi) (2010)
İki Ucu Ateş (Both Ends on Fire) (2007)
İzmir Valisi Kazım Dirik (Kazım Dirik, Governor of Izmir) (2006)
1st Agora Film Festival, Best Amateur Documentary Film Award
After graduating Keio University, Naoko studied film making at London Film School
and started her career in Tokyo, Japan. She has directed more than 300 TVCs, films,
branded contents, and music videos. Her past works as director and
cinematographer has been selected and awarded at various film and advertising
festivals such as Cannes Film Festival “Best European Shorts”, Hollywood Film
Festival, Moondance Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, Tokyo Short Shorts
Film Festival, Moving Pictures International Film Festival, Honolulu Film Festival, Fuji
Sankei Group Advertising Award, Nihon Television Advertising Award, CCN Award,
ACC Awards and many more.
In 2012, she set up her own company and took her career globally, traveling
frequently to direct in the Asian Pacific regions. She can execute a wide range of
styles from emotional drama, comedy, to fashion and is one of the very few female
directors who works across continents. Apart from her directing profession, she is
eager to recognise, support, and inspire young women in the directors chair
Albuțiu is independent photographer and filmmaker.
Born in Transylvania, Romania. He moved to Portugal in 2022, after 5 years of collaboration with
different Portuguese artists and institutions: Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Banco das Artes
Galeria, SERRA – Espaço Cultural, ICR Lisboa and Atelier Pop-Up. He started in 2022 a new
project about the river Lis, an installation with photography, audio, video and live performance.
Albutiu has a master degree in documentary Filmmaking. He published three photobooks: Rasto,
Chocolat après ballet and Framing A Romanian Landscape. The fourth photobook (HOST) is in
editing phase. He directed 3 documentaries: Khozyain, When Borders Get Indistinct and Without
Expectations. His newest film, Zarafe, is going to be premiered in November 2024.
Photography Exhibition
2023; Suprapuneri II; București/ collective
2023; Without Expectations ; Cluj Napoca
2023; utopos ; Leiria
2022; Suprapuneri ; București/ collective
2022; Rasto ; Leiria
2021; between the lines ; București/ collective
2021; Dansactorul ca fenomen. Punct ; Alba Iulia
2020; Cool Breeze In A Silent Landscape ; Târgu Mureș
2020; Under The Surface ; Leiria
2020; Family Of Dog ; Leiria
2019; Khozyain ; Leiria
2019; Khozyain ; Brașov
2019; New Energy ; Sibiu
2018; Cats and Moods ; Brăila
2018; Khozyain ; Cluj Napoca
2017; New Energy ; București
2017; New Energy ; Lisboa
2017; New Energy ; Leiria
2017; Cats ans Moods ; Brașov
2015; New Energy ; Bistrița
2015; Now’s the Time ; București/ collective
2014; Cats and Moods ; Podgorica
2014; Inside ; Cluj Napoca
2012; Jurnal de Culise ; Cluj Napoca
British-born Director and Producer based in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan.
Over 30-year career in international creative production spanning the film, television, advertising and publishing industries. Established production & management company creativehybrid, working with the finest Japanese and international creative talents.
In recent years has founded the development and creation of independent community and culture film-making, discovering and developing educational storytelling workshops, image and sound archives which have been presented across the Kansai area of Japan.
Maria Bălănean graduated Film Editing & Sound Design in 2014. Over the last 10 years she edited documentaries that were screened at many festivals such as Vision du Reel or Ji.hlava IDFF. In 2017 she joined a master program in visual anthropology, during which she directed her first documentary, Triplex Confinium, which was screened at several festivals and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at Romanian Film Awards (Gopo) in 2022. Since 2019 she’s been holding with her team documentary workshops for teenagers (https://atelieredefilmdocumentar.ro/films/). In the last 2+ years she’s also been working for Good Hands trailer house (goodhands.ro), exploring the world of trailer editing.
Filmography
Monsieur Markov (2025) Winner of the Best Research Award at the 13th Independent Documentary Cinema Celebration of Iran
Tange Rah (2013)
Lion Tomb (2012)
Dark Room (2011) – Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the 3rd London Iranian Film Festival (2012)
Koul Farah (2010) – Jury Award at the Civico di Rovereto Museum in Italy (2010)
Second Home (2009) – Screened at the Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Cinema Verite
Where Do I Belong? (2008) – Jury Special Prize at the Iran International Documentary Film Festival Cinema Verite; screened at the Toronto International Documentary Film Festival and Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi (2013)
Article 61 (2004) – Screened at Locarno International Film Festival, Amsterdam IDFA Documentary Film Festival, Prague One World Film Festival, and Uppsala (Sweden) Iranian Women Festival
Murder & Murdered (2003) – Screened on Arte TV France and featured in various festivals and prestigious universities including UC Berkeley
Pire Hara (2001) – Award of Excellence at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival; Grand Prix at the International Marine Kish Film Festival; participated in Cinema Du Reel in Paris, France; Special Prize of the Jury for Best Film in the National Competition; Best Director Award at the Yadegar Cultural Heritage Film
Festival
Pershang (2001) – Participated in Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany
Charsho (2000) – Best Director Award at the International Iranian Cinema; screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala, India (2001)
Yufek (1999) – Grand Prix at Tampere International Film Festival; First Prize at the Arg-e Jadid Documentary Film Festival; Best Director at International Iranian Young Cinema; won a prize at Sheffield Film Festival, UK; participated in many film festivals in Europe, US, and Canada
Mahvash Sheikholeslami is an Iranian documentary filmmaker. She completed her early education at the Music Conservatory, earned a diploma in painting from the School of Fine Arts, and later graduated from the London Film School. Throughout her professional career, Mahvash has played a significant role in the Iranian film industry, working as a producer and deputy producer on numerous films and television series. She has collaborated with renowned filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Dariush Mehrjui, and others. Additionally, she has shared her expertise as a film production instructor at Tehran’s University of Radio and Television. Since 1996, Mahvash Sheikholeslami has been making her own independent films, focusing on cultural heritage, environmental issues, and women’s stories. She is a permanent member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Guild.
Awards and Film Festival Participations
Mahvash Sheikholeslami has participated as a jury member in several prestigious film festivals, including:
Cinema Verite Iran International (2015)
Celebration of Iranian Cinema (2015)
Ahvaz International Science Film Festival (2015)
Civico di Rovereto Museum in Italy (2015)
Armenian Women Film Festival in Yerevan (2012)
National Photography & Film Festival of Water in Isfahan, Iran (2009)
International Iranian Young Cinema
Abadan Short Film Festival
Zanan Documentary Festival
Naft (Oil) International Film Festival in Abadan
Cinema Iran Film Festival
International Fajr Film Festival in Iran (2003)
Kish Documentary Film Festival (2002)
Tampere International Film Festival in Finland (2000)
Conference and Meeting Participation
Mahvash has also participated in various conferences and meetings, including:
The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Film at the University of Oregon, Baker Downtown Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Anthropology Conference at the University of Isfahan (2011)
International Documentary Studies Conference at Boadicea University, Istanbul (2010)
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