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Jam-e-Jam Television Festival is an annual festival for TV programs in Iran. It is annually organized by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting to honor its top TV programs and films. [1] The first festival was held in 2011. [2] [3] [4]
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian state-controlled media corporation that holds a monopoly of domestic radio and television services in Iran. It is also among the largest media organizations in Asia and the Pacific region and a regular member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Its head is appointed directly by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Jaam-e-Jam was a Persian-language television channel based in Los Angeles featuring content from Iranian immigrants, active from the early 1980s until 2017.
Mehran Modiri is an Iranian director, actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, host and singer. He is considered to be the leading artist in social satire in Iran.
Alireza Assar is an Iranian musician and Persian pop singer and composer, and piano and guitar player.
Jame Jam TV is one of three television channels airing programs for Iranians living outside Iran. The channel broadcasts TV series which are shown domestically in Iran. The channel was originally consisting of three channels under the Jame Jam branding, each broadcasting to a different part of the world; Jame Jam 1 broadcasting to Europe, Jame Jam 2 broadcasting to North America, and Jame Jam 3 broadcasting to Asia and Oceania. From 17 January 2015, the three channels merged as a single channel.
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi, is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress.
The Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) is an Iranian news channel, part of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting corporation, headquartered in the Jame Jam Park in Tehran, Iran. The main programs are political, but sports, science and medical news programs also exist. Its language is mainly in Persian but there are special programs in English and Arabic.
Hassan Fathi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He's one of the most well known and successful Iranian directors. Fathi is best known for his popular historical TV series.
Houman Seyyedi is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and editor. He has received various accolades, including six Crystal Simorghs–making him the only director to have three wins in Special Jury Prize category–two Hafez Awards, five Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards, a NETPAC Award and an Asian New Talent Award. His sixth film, World War III (2022) won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan is an Iranian-British journalist who writes for The Guardian. He was named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain by the Foreign Press Association. He is a staff journalist for The Guardian working from its London offices, and has been an Iran correspondent from Tehran for the newspaper in the past, especially in summer 2009. He is a co-producer of the 2010 HBO documentary For Neda, which was a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award.
Granaz Moussavi is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet, film director and screenwriter. She is known for her avant-garde poetry in the 1990s. Her debut feature film My Tehran for Sale (2009) is an internationally-acclaimed Australian-Iranian co-production. Her second feature film When Pomegranates Howl was nominated for the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Award as the Best Youth Feature Film and was selected as Australian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Shabnam Qolikhani is an Iranian TV, and cinema actress.
Mahboubeh Honarian 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.
Mani Nouri is an Iranian/Canadian actor and director. Since 2006, he has been working on modern visual projects. He was chosen the second best adolescent actor of the decade in the Middle East.
Paytakht is an Iranian TV series directed by Siroos Moghaddam and produced by Elham Ghafouri. portraying the life of a Mazandarani family in Aliabad village.
Hafez Awards is an annual awards ceremony which is held honoring cinematic achievements in Iranian cinema. The awards, first presented in 1997, are presented by Picture World Magazine which makes it to be known also as Donyaye Tassvir Awards. It's the only non-governmental ceremony among the cinematic festivals and awards held in Iran. Mehran Modiri and Asghar Farhadi jointly with 9 statues of Hafez are the record holders of this award.
Afsaneh Naseri is an Iranian actress and radio narrator.
The Urban (Shahr) International Film Festival held annually in Tehran, Iran by Tasvir Shahr Institute, is supervised by the Tehran Municipality's cultural and artistic organization. the eighth Urban International Film Festival was held from 18 to 22 July 2022 so far.