Mahboubeh Honarian

Mahboubeh Honarian
محبوبه هنریان
Born (1962-03-22) 22 March 1962
Isfahan, Iran
Nationality Persian Iran
Occupation Documentary Film Producer and Director
Years active 1993–present
Website www.veramedia.com

Mahboubeh Honarian (Persian: محبوبه هنریان) is an Iranian documentary filmmaker, director and producer. She was awarded her BA in Humanities with a media and Cultural studies bias and has earned her MSc in Engineering Multimedia in the United Kingdom. She has been working as a producer and director, on documentaries related to social issues such as homelessness, drugs, child abuse, etc. Her films are emphasized on women, children and youth. She has also produced and directed a broad range of TV series/programmes on social and cultural issues.[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 2014,[2] the Documentary Voices, Pulling Focus festival in Dubai in 2008, and the Great 11th Festival of Iranian Cinema in Iran in 2007. [3]

She has been a guest filmmaker at the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Germany, in 2010. A guest filmmaker at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and a member of a discussion panel at Spotlight on Iran in Canada, 2008 and at the GZ DOC film festival on International Producer’s Day in China, in 2008, 2012 and 2013.[4] [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, Tehran University 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 earthquake in Bam, Iran in 2004.

Filmography

Mahboubeh Honarian has produced and directed a broad range of documentary films and TV series mainly focused on Social and Cultural issues. The main concerns of her films are emphasized on women and children.[9]

Awards/Screenings

- The Best Film Award at the “Breaking Down Barriers” Film Festival, section ‘Shattering Stereotypes’, Moscow, 2014 [12]
- At the “Cinema Vérité” International Documentary 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. She has been the president of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association IRDFA in 2002-2003 and 2005–2008. Honarian was a member of the Project “Women as Peacemakers through Religion”, A Joint Workshop of ‘Muslim and Christian Women’ by Geneva’s World Council of Churches GWCC and Tehran's Institute for Interreligious Dialogue IID, in 2007–2009. In 2009, Honarian was as the Director of International Relations for the Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds House of Cinema at Cannes Film Festival. Honarian was working for the United Nations Development Programme UNDP, Iran as the Information/Documentation Officer in 2004.

Juror

Membership

Honarian is also a member of the following organizations:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5943953/
  2. ↑ http://issuu.com/worldscreen/docs/internationalemmyalmanac2013/136
  3. ↑ http://www.emirates247.com/eb247/the-business-of-life/entertainment/voicing-life-through-film-2008-07-04-1.211764
  4. ↑ http://wcsfp.com/index.php/2010/whos_coming#piran
  5. ↑ http://www.hotdocs.ca/schedule/event/hot_docs_talks_3_iran_to_you/
  6. ↑ http://www.gzdoc.com/index!expertsmsg.action?request_locale=en_US&aid=20&
  7. ↑ http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/
  8. ↑ https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=159153
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5943953/
  10. ↑ http://veramedia.com/oneoffs/unknown-beauty/
  11. ↑ http://veramedia.com/tvseries/documentary-from-another-perspective/
  12. ↑ http://kinofest.org/en/news
  13. ↑ http://defc.ir/files/Jadval_%20Barnameh.Final.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.burnet.edu.au/system/asset/file/796/Bangkok_Film_Program_2009.pdf
  15. ↑ http://veramedia.com/about-us/mahboubeh-honarian/
  16. ↑ http://issuu.com/worldscreen/docs/internationalemmyalmanac2013/136
  17. ↑ http://www.emirates247.com/eb247/the-business-of-life/entertainment/voicing-life-through-film-2008-07-04-1.211764
  18. ↑ http://www.khanehcinema.ir/en/home
  19. ↑ http://www.en.vareshfestival.com
  20. ↑ http://wcsfp.com/index.php/2010/whos_coming#piran
  21. ↑ http://irandocfilm.org
  22. ↑ http://www.edn.dk/nc/members/edn-members/find-edn-members/member/mahboubeh/
  23. ↑ http://doctoronto.ca
  24. ↑ http://www.wift.com

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