Kamal Tabrizi

Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, where his parents had moved from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows him as a photographer and reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Kamal Tabrizi graduated from Tehran University of Art 's Faculty of Cinema and Theater.

IG kamaaltabrizi

Biography

After graduating from the university in Tehran, he went to the Iran-Iraq war front as a director and photographer. He made his first documentary on war Martyrs, winning the Best Documentary award at Tashkent Film Festival. He taught Cinema and direction at the Young Cinema Society and Film Making Educational Center for some years and arranged many workshops on Cinema. He made his first feature film Passage, in 1988. Since then, he has made more than 18 feature films, including two co-productions with Japan. His feature films and TV series are the most popular in the Iranian Market and are well-received and awarded in International Film Festivals.