Soudabeh Moradian
Soudabeh Moradian
 Soudabeh Moradian Portrait | |
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| Born |
Soudabeh Moradian December 12, 1972 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | California - USA |
| Nationality |
Persian  American  |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts Tehran University of Art |
| Occupation | Film Director - Editor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Website |
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Soudabeh Moradian (Persian:سودابه مرادیان) is an Iranian independent filmmaker. She has created many movies about Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. A number of her movies have been in official selection of various international film festivals and many of them won awards. She has made many TV documentary series about Iranian rural women, and some independent documentaries about “war and madness" such as "Doomsday Machine"," Story Of The Land On Ashes","Mahin", "Voices Against Them" and some other narrative and documentary films like "The Leader of Caravan","My Name Is Tomorrow" and "Les Chroniques d'iran".The subjects of her movies are mainly based on women, social issues and psychological impacts of war. She made a feature called Polaris in 2014 which is a US-Iran collaboration starring Bahram Radan, Alicja Bachleda, Elisabeth Röhm and Coby Ryan McLaughlin.
Life
She was born in Tehran-Iran and started her career in directing, screen writing and editing in 1996 . She graduated from Tehran University of Art with a B.S in cinema in 1996 and got an MFA degree in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts in 2015. She immigrated to the United States in 2009 and has been working as a screenwriter, director and editor in California.
Films
- Polaris - Feature - 2015
- Writing and Directing
- I Was Born Yesterday - Documentary - 2014
- Directing and Editing
- - Official Selection of: Los Angeles CineFest, Sydney World Film Festival, Roma CINEMADOC, Silent Movie World Film Festival , Toronto film week and Lisbon International Film Festival
- - Winner of the best short film at Barcelona Planet Film Festival February 2016
- Burnt City - Experimental Documentary - 2012
- Directing and Editing
- With Iranian - Documentary series - 2010
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- Les Chroniques d'Iran- Documentary series for Arte TV - 2009
- Doomsday Machine (Machine Rooze Ghiamat) – Documentary - 2006~2009
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- - Official Selection of UKIFF Film Festival (London -2010)
- -Nominated in DOCSDF international Film Festival (Mexico-2009)
- -Official Selection of Document 7-international human rights film festival (Scotland-2009)
- -“a prize of honor”in Parivin Etesami Film Festival (Iran-2009)
- Outspoken : Los Angeles - Documentary - 2007
- Associate producer
- Voices Against Them - Documentary - 2007
- Producer, Co-Director and Editor
- The women of village (series 2)- documentary - 2002~2003
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- My name is tomorrow- fiction series - 2003
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- The savage sunflowers- feature - 2003
- Editing
- Story of the land on ashes (Gheseye khake soukhte)- documentary - 2001
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- - Official Selection of 20th Fajr International Film Festival- Iran, 18th international Short Film Festival- Iran and third week of FOROUGH Film- Iran
- Green and being in love- documentary series - 2001
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- Nexus – documentary series - 2000
- Screen writing and Directing
- MAHIN – Documentary - 1999
- Screen writing and Directing
- - Achieved the honorary Diploma in KISH Documentary Film Festival-Iran
- - Official Selection of Iranian films in North America and Achieved the honorary Diploma in Vancouver
- - Official Selection of festivals: Hamburg (Germany), Dresden (Germany), Ebenezer (Austria), Borne (Czech Republic)...
- Rain for surviving – documentary series - 1997
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- The women of village (series 1) – documentary series - 1997
- Screen writing, Directing and Editing
- Discovering Iran – Documentary parts of the Discovering Iran CD. - 1997
- Directing and Editing
- The leader of Caravan(Ghafeleh Salar )- short film - 1996
- Screen writing , Directing and Editing
- - Official Selection of Madrid Film Festival
Other Activities
- Vice President of Iranian documentary filmmakers association IRDFA (2008–2009)
- Jury member for a number of film festivals in Iran.
- Executive manager of the First workshop on documentary film making by IRDFA (Iranian documentary filmmakers association) and DEFC (documentary and experimental film center) in Tehran, Iran
- Columnist and Film critic in newspapers and artistic foundations.
- Member of International Documentary Association(IDA), The D-Word and IRDFA
References
- Soudabeh Moradian in Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association(IRDFA)
- Soudabeh Moradian in International Documentary Association(IDA)
- Soudabeh Moradian in The D-Word