Dear colleagues,
As you know, since 2007, with the help and support of different Iranian organisations who are involved in documentary film making and industry, we have been trying to bring Iranian documentary/ethnographical films into Western anthropological/visual anthropology film festivals and programs.
Since last year we have also decided to introduce non-Iranian visual anthropologists, ethnographical filmmakers and their films to the related audiences in Iran. The first step in this regard was the invitation of Dr. R. Ragazzi as part of the international jury for the 7th edition of "Cinema Vérité" Iran International Documentary Film Festival (2013, Tehran, Iran). Also, for the next season of this film festival, which will be held from November 30th to December 7th 2014, we hope to invite Prof. P. I. Crawford and Dr. I. Kawase to run a master class and a workshop.
Now we have decided to go take a new step and run a yearly film program in Iran in which we will present the selections of ethnographical/anthropological films (in accordance with Iranian Governmental restrictions) of related film festivals outside Iran.
I should add that until today no academic courses, professional training, nor even a small library or film archive related to visual anthropology/ethnographical films in Iran exist. We hope by running this new program we will not only give this important chance to Iranian filmmakers and anthropologists to be familiar with this field of study, but we will also create an anthropological film archive in Iran which will be used strictly for professional and academic reasons.
It is for this reason that I am contacting you to identify which film festivals are interested in participating in this academic initiative and how we can work together.
I would be more than happy to get your advice and feedback in this regard and I am looking forward to working closely together on this project.
Yours truly,
P. Khosronejad
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Dr.P. Khosronejad
The Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for the Anthropology of Iran
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St. Andrews
71, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, U.K. KY16 9AL
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/files/staff/142/CV.pdf
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June 2013
Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari:
Description et Significations de Sculptures Zoomorphes dans une Société Tribale du Sud-ouest de l'Iran
(The Anthropology of Persianate Societies) Sean Kingston Publishing
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Jan. 2013
Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors (Ethnographic film)
https://vimeo.com/60553037
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The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME)
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/acme/
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