Kamal Tabrizi


Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, with his parents having moved there from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer & reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Kamal Tabrizi graduated from Tehran University of Art at Faculty of Cinema and Theater.

Autobiography

After graduating from Cinema & TV from Art University in Tehran;He went to the war front of Iran-Iraq war as a director and photographer and has made his first documentary on war Martyrs which won the best documentary award in Tashkent Film Festival. He taught Cinema and direction in Young Cinema Society and Film making Educational Center for some years and arranged many workshops on cinema. He made his first feature film Passage in 1988. Since then he has made more than 18 feature films, including two co-productions with Japan. His feature films and TV series are of the most popular films in Iranian Market and well received and awarded in the international Film Festivals.
He achieved PhD of Art from ministry of art & culture in 2017.

Filmography as a director