Mahboubeh Honarian Explained

Mahboubeh Honarian
محبوبه هنریان
Birth Place:Isfahan, Iran
Occupation:Film Producer and Director
Education:Nottingham Trent University - United Kingdom
Years Active:1993–present
Website:www.veramedia.com

Mahboubeh Honarian (Persian: محبوبه هنریان; born in 1962) is an Iranian-Canadian film director and film producer. She was awarded her MSc in engineering multimedia and BA in Humanities with a media and cultural studies bias in the United Kingdom.

She has been working as a film producer and director on a broad range of documentary, feature film and short film films as well as TV eeries mainly focused on social issues such as war, homelessness, drug addiction]], child abuse and refugees. The main concerns of her films are emphasized on women, children and youth.[1]

Honarian has been invited to serve on the jury of a number of film festivals, including the International Emmy Awards in New York from 2010 to 2017,[2] ‘the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT), Canada, 2016/2017,[3] the Documentary Voices, Pulling Focus festival in Dubai in 2008, and the Great 11th Festival of Iranian Cinema in Iran in 2007. [4]

She was invited as a guest filmmaker to various festivals including the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Germany in 2010, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival as a member of a discussion panel at Spotlight on Iran in Canada in 2008 and at the GZ DOC film festival on International Producer's Day in China in 2008, 2012 and 2013.[5] [6]

She has been a member of Program Supervisory Board for the Conference of Visual Representations of Iran, University of St-Andrews, Scotland, in 2008 and a member of Scientific Board for the First Symposium on Visual Anthropology of Iran, Anthropology Society of Iran, University of Tehran in 2007.[7] [8]

Honarian has been the president of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association for four years (2004–2008) and as an Information/Documentation officer for the United Nations Development Programme after the disastrous 2003 Bam earthquake.

Filmography

TV Series

Awards/Screenings

- Best Directing, at the "Global Motion Picture Awards" Festival, 2018 [11]

- The Best Film Award at the "Breaking Down Barriers" Film Festival, section ‘Shattering Stereotypes’, Moscow, 2014 [12]

- At the ‘Noor' Film Festival,(USA)

- At the ‘Assim Vivemos’ Festival’ (Brazil)

- At the ‘Extraordinary’ film Festival (Belgium)

- At the "Cinema Verite (The Annual Iran International Documentary Film Festival), Iran, 2014[13]

- Premiere at the "INTERdoc 2014", Serbia, 2014

- Screened and presented at the Bangkok Harm Reduction film festival, Thailand, 2009

- Screened and presented at the 4th annual In the Mind's Eye film festival, Canada, 2008

- Screened and presented at the Documentary Voices, Pulling Focus film festival, Dubai, 2008

- Screened and presented at the Dortmund/Cologne International Women's film festival, Germany, 2006

- Nominated as one of the best films in the Iranian Cinema film festival, Iran, 2000

- Nominated and Screened at the Kish Documentary film festival, Iran, 2000

Professional Experience

Since 2000, Honarian has been involved in Media and Film industry. In 2007, she founded her film production company VeraMedia International Productions in Toronto, Canada[15]

Besides being a filmmaker, Honarian has also been active in various social and cultural activities, including:

Juror

Membership

Honarian is also a member of the following organizations:

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mahboubeh Honarian. IMDb.
  2. Web site: International Emmy Almanac 2013 by World Screen - Issuu. 11 December 2013. issuu.com. 9 June 2023.
  3. http://issuu.com/https://www.academy.ca Issue post
  4. Web site: Voicing life through film. Emirates24/7.
  5. Web site: Who's Coming : World Congress of Science and Factual Producers . 2015-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151101004820/http://www.wcsfp.com/index.php/2010/whos_coming#piran . 2015-11-01 . dead .
  6. Web site: Hot Docs | Schedule : Event : Hot Docs Talks 3 Iran to You . 2015-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219090423/http://www.hotdocs.ca/schedule/event/hot_docs_talks_3_iran_to_you/ . 2015-02-19 .
  7. Web site: Anthropology Iran . 2010-11-16 . 2010-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101116155731/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/ . dead .
  8. Web site: Announcements | H-Net.
  9. Web site: Unknown Beauty | VeraMedia.
  10. Web site: Documentary from another Perspective | VeraMedia . 2015-02-19 . 2015-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219102510/http://veramedia.com/tvseries/documentary-from-another-perspective/ . dead .
  11. Web site: Global Motion Picture Awards.
  12. Web site: The International Disability Film Festival "Breaking down barriers" - News. kinofest.org. 9 June 2023.
  13. Web site: مرکز گسترش سینمای مستند و تجربی - یافت نشد.
  14. http://www.burnet.edu.au/system/asset/file/796/Bangkok_Film_Program_2009.pdf Bangkok Film Program 2009
  15. Web site: Mahboubeh Honarian | VeraMedia.
  16. Web site: Home | House of Cinema.
  17. Web site: Varesh International Film Festival. www.en.vareshfestival.com. 9 June 2023.
  18. Web site: WIFT Toronto. WIFT Toronto. 9 June 2023.
  19. Web site: صفحه اصلی وب‌سایت انجمن مستندسازان سینمای ایران - انجمن مستندسازان سینمای ایران (انجمن کارگردانان سینمای مستند ایران). انجمن مستندسازان سینمای ایران. 9 June 2023.
  20. http://www.edn.dk/nc/members/edn-members/find-edn-members/member/mahboubeh/ Members
  21. Web site: DOC Toronto. Documentary Organization of Canada / Documentaristes du Canada. 9 June 2023.

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