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http://persiancnn.netBahman Maghsoudlou (born in Gorgan, Iran, 1946) is a film scholar and critic, and is the recipient of Iran's Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater (1975). These include the widely acclaimed "Iranian Cinema" which was published in 1987 by the New York University's Center for Middle Eastern studies and is used around the world as a resource on the history of Persian films.Maghsoudlou wrote and directed and produced a short documentary on Ardeshir Mohasses and his caricatures in 1972 and one on Ahmad Mahmoud in 2004.As a producer his films have been to more than 100 film festivals world wide.These films include: The Suitor, which showed at Cannes in 1988; Manahattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), which showed at Venice, Toronto 1993; Seven Servants (by Daryush Shokof), which showed at Berlin, Toronto, Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, which showed at the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.He is currently producing and directing a feature length documentary on the history of Iranian Cinema entitled, "Iranian Cinema, Searching for the Roots: 1900-1979", and the Documentary "The Life and legacy of Mohammad Mosaddegh."Having organized the first ever Iranian Film Festival in New York in 1980, he organized the International short Film Festival in dependent Films in Iran, which was held in October 2007, in New York.A graduate in cinema studies from the City University of New York (Staten Island) with a PhD from Columbia University, Maghsoudlou lives in New York.David ABBASI siyavash AWESTA, He has written more than 75 books, and 2000 articles. Animator of the radio Ici et Maintenant [2] since 1986, and has experienced more than 7000 hours of emissions and interviewed several international personalities like Jacques Chirac, Laurent Fabius, Daniel Gélin, Henri Caillavet, José Bové, Mehdi Bazargan, Castro, Pierre Henry, Pierre Marion, Ari Ben Menashe, Eli Barnavi, Enrico Macias, Général Paris, and Jean Pierre Raffarin, François Lebel [3]. Founder of Mehr television since the year 2000, the emissions diffused by satellite, Telestar 12 & 4 in the whole world

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