Ebrahim Forouzesh

He was born in 1939 in Tehran. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in l970. He has been the director of cinema department in Kanoon from 1971 to 1978. Forouzesh has produced over 90 feature and short films, and has written many screenplays.
Forouzesh's documentaries, features and fiction short films include: “Traders”, "Bam Citadel", "Glance", "Palm", "Beyond the Borders", "Myself, I, Myself", "Wild Lilies", "Key", "The Jar", "Little Man", and "Children of Petroleum". He has also made more than 100 fiction and documentary videos.
He was a member of jury in Fajr (7th, 13th and 15th) Film Festival, Tehran, 6th International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults Isfahan, Locarno Film Festival 1994, Switzerland, Cine Junior 1996, and Haydarabad Film Festival 1997, India, as well as Tehran International Animation Festival 1999. His films have picked up over 30 awards at film festivals around the world including Moscow, Cine Junior Film Festival, France, Locarno Switzerland, Chicago USA, Sao Paolo Brazil, Vienna Austria and many other festivals.

He was born in 1945 in Tehran. Vajihollah Fard Moghadam attended animation courses in Kanoon and Iranian Ministry of Art & Culture. Since 1973 he has been cooperating with Kanoon and has also worked in the animation studio of Mr. Zarinkelk. After attending courses in Kanoon and a puppet animation course in Ministry of Culture in the former Czechoslovakia, he made his student animation film “Intruders” in l976 that won a certificate of appreciation from the Spanish Student Film Festival.
He has also participated in the production of the following projects: “Jorjorak”, “Together With One Another”, “Return”, “Lalaei Ashora”, “One Another’s Friends Along One Another”, “Lili Lili Hozak” and “Man & His Promise” that won the certificate of appreciation from Roshd Festival in 2004. The “Bic Pen” animation teaser has also won the best animation teaser title in the Commercial Teaser Festival 2001.
Amongst his other activities in the field of animation are: the production of image carousel (zoetrope) for Kanoon amusement center, teaching in the Art University, writing scripts, cinematography and animation.

He was born in 1947 in Tehran. He took animation courses in Animation Studio of Kanoon before taking mono-frame puppetry courses in the former Czechoslovakia.
He animated "The Old She-Demon" with Rasoul Azadian's collaboration, which won awards at Young Cinema Festival in 1977. He is experienced as a designer, animator and cinematographer and has designed logos for Isfahan Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults as well as Fajr Film Festival. Alimorad has animated three short films that have won awards at the Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults as well as Fajr Film Festival: "Paper sheet and Fold", "Kelid Naghsh" (a traditional instrument for drawing), "Kids in the Museum", and “Parrot and the Grocer” have also won prizes in Roshd Festival and International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults.
His short film "Jewels Mountain" picked up awards in film festivals around the world such as appreciation by UNICEF jury in Berlin Festival, Golden Award in Carousel Festival, Canada, and Silver Elephant award from Hyderabad Festival, India as well as festivals in Iran. It was followed by "To the Toyland" and "Tales of Bazaar" that received awards at Fajr and Roshd Festivals and at Organization for Cultural Heritage. His next film, "One, Not Enough" won the Best Animated Film Award at Isfahan, bronz medal at Cairo Film Festival and certificate of appreciation from ASIFA. His recent film "Bahador" was ranked second by Education Ministry at another Isfahan Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults. He has also won the best animation and the best theme at Roshd Festival in 2000.

He was born in Shirvan, Khorasan. After high school, he left for UK to study art and work in the fields of photography multi-vision and animation. After finishing his higher education in design and audio-visual communications, he returned to Iran in 1981 where he has been teaching theory and practice of animation in IRIB Film School, Tehran University, University of Arts, Islamic Azad University and Islamic Center for Training of Filmmaking. He is the only Iranian member of International Society of Animation Studies and has had an active presence in international animation festivals.
To continue his education, he went to Malaysia in 1995 and later obtained his license in methods of teaching for adults from N.T.V University of Australia. He has been the executive producer of a sixty five part program on animation for Channel Four of IRIB and Saba Cultural and Art Company. Cinematography of animation film “From Infinity” for Kanoon and member of the Jury of the First and Second Tehran International Animation Festivals have been among his other activities. He has been the head of animation filmmaking unit of IRIB Film School or 18 years and has worked and discussed with them the problems of animation filmmaking. He is the author of a number of articles on animation, and has edited a collection of articles on animation under the title “awakening of Dreams” simultaneous to the Second Tehran International Animation Festival. He has also translated “A Hundred Years of Animation” by Alberto Bendazzi. Tavakolian is presently the new ASIFA chairman of the Board of Directors of Iran.

She was born in 1958 in Tabriz.
Since 1983 she has been active in the following animation projects.
  - Clay mission, Broken Image, Escape, as film title designer.
  - Dosti, as animator.
  - Adventures of Lala and Lolo, an animation series, as designer, and director 1990 to1996.
  - Two and a half person and Mr. wishful thinking as film title designer.
She has also worked as an art director and dress designer in "Friendship Agency", a 48 part series 1999-2000 and motion picture "seven song" 2001.
Some of her animation films have entered national and international festivals such as: "First Sin" in Cannes Festival 1998 (Cine Foundation section), International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, 1998 and 1st Tehran International Animation Festival 1998. Two parts of Lala and Lolo series “Happy Birthday” and “Shark Adventures” have also entered the 1st Tehran International animation Festival 1998, and International Festival of Films for children and young adults, Isfahan, 1998.