Mehrdad Ghafarzadeh

MEHRDAD GHAFARZADEH (1966, Tehran) He started his career in 1981 with writing short stories. When he was a teenager he participated at the Iran-Iraq war as a volunteer. Later on he wrote literary and film criticism for Iranian newspapers, for radio and TV. Made 6 TV series. Then he started to make documentaries inside Iran and in other countries. In 2011 Ghaffarzadeh made his first feature film The Receiver, which was screened at the Fajr Film Festival and won… (mehr)