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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY CINEMA AND TV مدیر فیلم برداری سینما و تلوزیون عضو انجمن فیلم برداران سینمای ایران Shahriar Assadi – Director of Photography Shahriar Assadi was born in 1960 in Tehran. He studied economy and then began to work in film in 1982. He began his studies and training in cinematography with various masters, and from 1986 until 2000 he worked as assistant and then as cinematographer with Mahmoud Kalari, who himself has been cinematographer of more than forty-five films. From 2000 onwards, Assadi has worked as a professional cinematographer. Some of his important works are Turtles Can Fly by Bahman Ghobadi (2004), for which Assadi was nominated for the Golden Frog at the Camera Image film festival. The film won the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale, the audience award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Frontier Blues by Babak Jalali (2009), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the Gijon Film Festival, the FIPRESCI prize at the San Francisco Film Festival, and which played at the New Directors/New Films, Edinburgh, Stockholm Festivals… He was also cinematographer of Two Angels by Mamad Haghighat (2006), Earring by Vahid Moussaian (2007), and One to One by Mania Akbari (2010) Assadi has also worked on films outside of Iran. In 2008 he shot Gagma Napiri by George Ovashvili in Georgia. The film won the Golden Apricot at the Yerevan Film Festival, the Jury award at Paris Cinema Festival, and Best Film at Fribourg, Mons and Molodist film festivals. He has worked in Iraq and Turkey. In 2005, with Turtles Can Fly, Shahryar Assadi has been nominated for the best cinematographer prize at the Camerimage Festival in Poland, and received the best Iranian cinematographer for 2005, as well as in the Macedonia Film Festival. He won the best cinematographer prize at the Moscow Film Festival for Gagma Napiri in 2009. Shahriar is my nickname my passport name is Amir Assadi also you can check my name With Shahriar Assadi and Amir Assadi in GOOGLE and IMDB Thank you very much Best regards Shahryar Assadi