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Reza Badiyi was born on 17 April 1929 in Arak, Iran. He was a director and producer, known for Carnival of Souls (1962), Stop Susan Williams (1979) and Get Smart (1965). He was married to Tania Harley, Barbara Turner and Gwendolyn M Dennis. He died on 20 August 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Pouri Baneai was born Seddigheh Banayi in Arak, Iran on October 11, 1940. She lived there for four years before she and her parents moved to Tehran. She had seven sisters and one brother.
She acted in more than 85 Iranian feature films between 1965 and 1979. During her years of acting before the Iranian revolution, she cooperated with famous Iranian directors such as Mehdi Reisfirooz, Samuel Khachikian, Masoud Kimiai, Farrokh Ghaffari, and Fereidoun Goleh. Her most memorable performances are in Iranian new wave films such as Masoud Kimiai's Qeysar in 1969 and in Fereydun Gole's The Mandrake.
Her first feature film was The Foreign Bride, directed by Nosratollah Vahdat. Pouri didn't have any academic education in acting and because Vahdat was one of her distant relatives, he suggested her to act in his film. In 1967 she co-starred with Behrouz Vosoughi, a famous Iranian actor at the time. They had many co-operations and in 1970 they acted in Qeysar, known as one of the major films and a symbol of Iranian new wave. She also co-starred with other Iran Cinema superstars of the time such as Mohammad Ali Fardin, Naser Malek Motiee, Manouchehr Vosugh, Iraj Ghaderi, Ali Nasirian, and Parviz Sayyad. Most of the Farsi-language Iranian movies were dubbed in those days and famous actors and actresses had specific dubbers. Zhaleh Kazemi was Pouri Banayi's dubber. Some of her films like The Mandrake and The Falconet in addition to Qeysar and Ghazal are considered as milestones in her performances before the 1979 revolution which put a partial end to this type of Iranian cinema.
She also acted in some foreign-produced English-language films such as Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1978) directed by Leslie H. Martinson in which she co-starred with Peter Graves and Curd Jurgens. In another film directed by Fereydun Gole, named The Moon and a Murmur (1977), she co-starred with John Ireland and Mickey Rooney. Jean Negulesco choose her and Behrouz Vosoughi to play the roles of a couple in his last film The Invincible Six (1970). Jun'ya Sato, the Japanese director chose her for the lead actress in his 1973 adaptation of the manga, Golgo 13.
Most Iranian actors and actresses fled Iran after the 1979 revolution, because they had acted in sexy films before the revolution. Pouri Banayi chose to stay behind, but she was soon imprisoned in the Evin Detention House for over one year. She was released late in 1980, but never acted in cinema again despite that she was never technically banned from acting in films.
She was engaged to Behrouz Vosughi, but they didn't officially get married. One of Pouri's sisters is Aki Banayi (Akram Banayi) who is is a singer and presently lives in Los Angles. - Actress
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Pegah Ahangarani was born on 24 July 1984 in Arak, Iran. She is an actress and director, known for I Am Trying to Remember (2021), My Father (2023) and Trapped (2013).- Producer
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Manijeh Hekmat was born in 1962 in Arak, Iran. She is a producer and director, known for Women's Prison (2002), Three Women (2008) and Bandar Band (2020). She is married to Jamshid Ahangarani. They have one child.- Actor
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Mansour Bahrami was born on 26 April 1956 in Arak, Iran. He is an actor, known for Mansour, Matchball (1994) and Wimbledon (1937).- Visual Effects
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(b.1993) is an Iranian visual effects artist. He holds an BA in Theatre from Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. He started his career as a motion graphics designer for a few years and then entered the visual effects industry due to his interest as a compositor for feature films and animation. Now He is working as a visual effects supervisor and senior compositor.- Writer
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Ali Safari was born in January 1987 in Iran. He started writing plays at the age of 22. Works such as Auschwitz Women, Square, Holodomor, Invasion, Chronos, Joystick, Prize, Berlin at 10:10, Kebab, The Last Battle are among his plays that have been performed.
Six of her plays have been published in Iran, and the play Auschwitz by Women has been published in two languages, English and Ukrainian.
Natural Selection, Circus, Operating System, and Artificial Respiration are some of the screenplays written by Ali Safari.
In September 2021, she staged two plays, Holodomor and Auschwitz, by women in Kyiv, Ukraine, and at the Lviv Theater Festival in Ukraine. He won the Special Jury Prize of the LVIV Festival in Ukraine.- Soheil Bahrami who known by his stage name Phsycloner was born 6 March 1998 is a Persian musician, DJ, re-mixer and record producer who published his first song in 2017 that was called Counting Dream. In 2018 one of his that called Stardust and Harvest of tea winning the best Electronic dance music of the year in Iran.
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Alireza Rabie Moghadam was born on October 22nd, 1991 in Arak, Iran. He's an IT and Film Making graduate who has made four short films, one documentary, and two music videos so far. His first short film, Vertigo, entered the Seattle International Film Festival. His second film, The Crypt, was nominated for the best film in the Ager Film Festival and managed to enter the Tehran International Short Film Festival. His fourth short film, Cadillac, was nominated by the audience as the best film in the 100 Film Festival and entered Shiraz Regional Film Festival.
He received the award for the best music video for his work in Shahrzard in the 9th San Francisco Iranian Film Festival (2016). His work was also one of the candidates for the best music video in the 2nd International Film Festival of Shimla (India, 2016) and managed to enter the 40th Atlanta Film Festival. His other music video, Ashoob (meaning Chaos), was one of the candidates in the 11th San Francisco Iranian Film Festival.
In 2019 and after 4 years of constant and careful research, study, and education in the field of virtual reality (VR), Alireza Rabie Moghadam successfully developed Iran's first VR experience called Astigmat, which was showcased in the 36th Tehran International Short Film Festival. Three fully-VR seasons of this show have been produced and published so far.
After 10 years of activity in the Film and Advertisement industry, he founded Studio Alzaymer in 2019 and continued his work in the advertisement industry with more seriousness and enthusiasm.- Benny Rebel was born on 13 August 1968 in Arak, Iran.
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Mostafa Azizi is an Iranian writer, screenwriter and producer of television programs. Some of his productions like Talash game-show, Mosafer and Rahe Bi Payan TV series were among the most highly-watched programs of their time. A book of his short stories in Farsi titled, "My Name is Raymond Carver" was published in 2010 in Iran.
Since 2010, Azizi has immigrated to Canada and currently lives in Toronto where he is the director of Alternate Dream Productions Inc.
Even though he was a graduate of theoretical economics from Tehran University, Mostafa started his professional life as a writer and editor of educational and scientific programs in the Iranian National Radio in 1986. In 1990, he moved to television and became the director of Computer Animation Unit (CAU). At the same time, he was the manager of software engineering department in IRIB. At the time when computers were, for the first time, coming to Iran, he was among a generation of managers who played a pioneering role in acquiring latest technology for Iran. For these purposes, he made numerous trips, as part of IRIB delegations, to the West, including visits to Hungary, Germany, Turkey and Dubai.
As a pioneer in bringing Computer-generated Animation to Iran, he always kept his interest in animation and is still a member of international ASIFA. For four years (2002-2006), he headed the Iranian section of ASIFA. In early 1990s, he started producing his own TV programs and co-operating in this capacity with Iranian national TV channels. In 1994, he left the IRIB as an employee to open up the "Kelk-e-Khial" as a private film-producing company. He served as its managing director until immigrating to Canada in 2010.
His first success in television came with the game-show Talash (Struggle) which, designed and produced by Azizi, was broadcasted from 1997 to 2000. It became known for giving out a Peykan (the national automobile in Iran) to some of the best winners. According to polls, up to 72 percent of TV spectators, watched the program. Readers of Soroosh magazine elected it as the best TV program of 1998-9 (1377 in Persian calendar). Same was done by the readers of Sinema Magazine for the following year.
In 2000, he wrote and produced his first TV series, Mosafer (Direted by Siroos Moghadam) for the Tehran TV channel of IRIB. It was an instant success by gaining 73 percent of spectators, 88 percent of which rated it as "highly" or "very highly" satisfying (according to IRIB polls.) Azizi thus made a name for himself as a successful screenwriter and producer of TV programs.
In 2006-2007, he produced Rahe Bi Payan (Endless Road) (Directed by Homayoon Asadian) which was also successful in gaining audience and also critically acclaimed. He went on to produce the TV Series "Gav sandoogh" (2010, directed by Maziar Miri) and Television movies "Baazi" (2008, directed by Soroosh Sehat), "Enteghal" (2008, directed by Alireza Bazrafshan) and "Shifte Badi" (2010, directed by Jorj Hashemzadeh.)
Even though he made a living in television, he always kept his intellectual side. He started a popular blog on politics and literature, titled Shabah (Spectre), in 2002, only exposing his identity years later in 2011, few years after Shabah was closed down. He now blogs with his real identity in a blog titled "Qoozake Pelatini". Through the years, many of his articles and stories were published in Iran and after his immigration to Canada, in Farsi publications there.
His first collection of short stories, titled "My name is Raymond Carver" came out in Tehran in 2010.
In Canada, he has opened up the private film-producing company Alternate Dream Productions Inc.- Farid Faraji is an Iranian actor and internet celebrity. He was born on August 2nd, 1999 Arak, and was raised in Tehran. Farid Faraji, born in 1999, was the youngest of the candidates who announced their readiness to run in the presidential elections in Iran (2017). Farid Faraji is the youngest presidential candidate in the history. After 2 years of his candidate in presidential election, The politician (2019) Premiered on Netflix.
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Arman Manaryan was born on 15 December 1929 in Arak, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for Karine (1969), Enker Panjuni (1992) and Another Five Days (1978). He died on 16 February 2016 in Yerevan, Armenia.- Kader Abdolah was born on 12 December 1954 in Arak, Iran.
- Shahryar Shafaee (born April 21, 1993 in Arak, Iran) is a musical artist, professional singer and songwriter since 2010.
Shahryar Shafaee , with the production of Exir Novin Company under the management of Mr Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh, has so far distributed 5 tracks in his name: Roobe rah-am, Shabikhoon, Tehran, Too Deli, Shabgardi. He is working on nee album and tracks for this year and he is going to release it. - Music Department
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Valéria Botka was born on 10 June 1928 in Arak, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Pál Adrienn (2010), Tótágas (1976) and A varázsló (1969). She died on 28 September 2013.- Golchehre Sajadieh was born on 14 August 1954 in Arak, Iran. She is an actress, known for Negin (2002), Hiva (1999) and Snake's Fang (1990).