Abolfazl Attar

Abolfazl Attar "Adin Attar"
Abolfazl Attar "Adin Attar"
Born	23 September 1968 (age 55); Mashhad, Iran
Occupation(s)	Film director, actor, film editor, screenwriter
Years active	1981–present

Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z "Adin Attar" (Persian: ابوالفضل عطار; born September 23, 1968) is an Iranian film director, actor, screenwriter and film editor.^[1]

Early life[edit]

Adin Attar was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran and started learning filmmaking in the early 1980s. He was an active member of the Iranian Young Cinema Society In 2007 he conducted a research project to revise and improve the legal rights of authors and intellectual property owners, and presented it to the Iranian authorities.

Memberships[edit]

Founder, Executive Director & Head of Management SETAYESH FILM
Union of Iranian Entertainment Companies (UIEC)
The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds ^[2]^[3]
Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS)

Activities[edit]

Artistic activity started in 1981 with the Theater in Mashhad
Making short films,8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm
Making Documentary films and video advertising
Teaching filmmaking in Mashhad Young Cinema Society, howze honari & private institutions
Started professional filmmaking in 1993 with TV "This home is far away ".
Collaborate With more than fifty short film, half long, series and movies as:
Screenwriter, consulting, planning, production manager, editing, actor, assistant director & cinematographer.
Member of jury in Film Festival: (Iranian Young Cinema Society) provinces: Khorasan, Gilan, Mazandaran, Semnan.
Writing articles and film criticism in newspapers Khorasan, culture and cinema & soure^{[check spelling]}
Secretary of Scientific, Cultural, Art & Literature Services in newspaper of Gozaresh -e- Rooz

Selected filmography[edit]

Year	Films
1988	FOR ALL OF US	Screenwriter
1988	TO THE DUST AGAIN	Screenwriter
1986	THE BURNED EARTH	Screenwriter	Director	Editor
1986	ROOTS IN DEPTH	Screenwriter	Director	Editor
1987	THE RINGING OF MY BELL	Screenwriter	Director	Editor
1990	WINDOW ON ALLEY	Screenwriter	Director		Production Manager
1999	The Law of Karma^[4]	Screenwriter	Director		Line Producer
2008	EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT	Screenwriter	Director	Editor
2010-11	REFERENCE POINT		Director
2011	MY DEAR FAMILY (YOUTHFULNESS) ^[5]		Director	Co -Editor	Line Producer
2011-12	THE LAST RAINY DREAM		Director
2013	SEVENTH PASSWORD			Editor

As an actor[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Director
1992	Rainy Night	Older brother	Majid Hamed
2011	The Last rainy dream	Police Maj.	Adin Attar
2012	Like Glass	University professor	Javad Mozdabadi
2012	Once Upon a Time	In two roles	Abolfazl Ahmadian
2015	The testing season	Kazem Karimi	Navid Torabi
2016	Roulette	Ata Gunesh	Mohsen Rabiei
2016	Rough Land	Bahram	Mohammad Ravandi
2016	Beautiful City	Tooraj Jamali	Mehdi Mazloumi
2016	Borderline	Doctor Parsa	Ahmadreza Garshasbi

Awards[edit]

Year	Films	Awards	Festivals
1987	ROOTS IN DEPTH	Best Scriptwriter	2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan
1987	THE RINGING OF MY BELL	Best Director	2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan
1987	THE BURNED EARTH	Best Film Editor	2nd Youth Film Festival in Khorassan
1987	ROOTS IN DEPTH	Second Prize for the filmscript	Fajr Artistic and Cultural Competitions
1988	THE RINGING OF MY BELL	Best Scriptwriter	6th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran
1988	THE RINGING OF MY BELL	Candidate of the Best Editor & Director	6th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran
1989	TO THE DUST AGAIN	Best Scriptwriter	7th Iranian National Youth Film Festival, Tehran
1990	TO THE DUST AGAIN	Best Film	Danobiale International Film festival, Austria (Scriptwriter)
1990	TO THE DUST AGAIN	Best Film	Eskopie International Film Festival Skopje Film Festival, Yugoslavia (Scriptwriter)
1991	TO THE DUST AGAIN	Best Film	Igualada International Film Festival, Spain (Scriptwriter)
2000	THE LAW OF KARMA	Best Film	Youth's Film Festival, Khorassan
2005	THE LAW OF KARMA	Best Film	Fajr International Film Festival (Khorassan Province), Iran

References[edit]

^ "Iranian Short Film Festival 2003". Archived from the original on October 20, 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
^ "::: The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds :::". Archived from the original on 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
^ "انجمن فیلم کوتاه ایران - ابوالفضل عطار". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
^ [1] Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ وبلاگ ابوالفضل عطار | Abolfazl Attar Web - گزارش تصويري از فيلم خانواده عزيزم مرداد My Dear Family A Film By Abolfazl Attar 1390

External links[edit]

[1] "Iranian Short Film Festival 2003". Archived from the original on October 20, 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010.

[2] "::: The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds :::". Archived from the original on 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2010-02-14.

[3] "انجمن فیلم کوتاه ایران - ابوالفضل عطار". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-03-06.

[4] [1] Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[5] وبلاگ ابوالفضل عطار | Abolfazl Attar Web - گزارش تصويري از فيلم خانواده عزيزم مرداد My Dear Family A Film By Abolfazl Attar 1390

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