Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z (Persian: ابوالفضل عطار ) (born September 23, 1968 in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran) is an Iranian Film Director, Actor , Screenwriter & Editor
Early life
Abolfazl Attar started learning filmmaking from Dariush Arjmand, in early 1980s.He was an active member of the Iranian Young Cinema Society, in decade 1980s.In 1989, after one year of effort at Iranian Young Cinema Society, he succeeded to change the usual format of 8 mm films, into the 16 mm and 35 mm film-format, by making his 16 mm film titled “A Window To The Alley”.The first film Iranian Young Cinema Society produced which had won many internationals awards, was named “TO THE DUST AGAIN” Directed by Mahdi Bemani Naeini, which Abolfazl Attar had written its scripts. For the first time in Iran, in 1997, in the internal bulletin of Khorasan Script writers Association, he suggested the registration and patent of scripts in cinema; which later on this idea was widely implemented in Iranian Center for Script Writers and The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds (House of Cinema). 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.
Abolfazl Attar & Sid Ganis, President of Oscar Academy 2009. Tehran. Iran
Memberships
| Establisher, Executive Director & Head of Management SETAYESH FILM setayesh film |
| Union of Iranian Entertainment Companies (UIEC) |
| The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds |
| Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS)[1] |
Activities
| 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 |
| Secretary of Scientific, Cultural, Art & Literature Services in newspaper of Gozaresh -e- Rooz |
Selected filmography
| Year | Films | | | | |
|---|
| 1988 | FOR ALL OF US | Screenwriter | | | |
| 1988 | TO THE DUST AGAIN | Screenwriter | | | |
| 1988 | THE BURNED EARTH | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1988 | ROOTS IN DEPTH | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1987 | THE RINGING OF MY BELL | Screenwriter | Director | Editor | |
| 1990 | WINDOW ON ALLEY | Screenwriter | Director | | Production Manager |
| 2000 | The Law of Karma | Screenwriter | Director | | Line Producer |
| 2008 | EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT | Screenwriter | Director | Editor |
| 2010-11 | REFERENCE POINT | | Director | | |
| 2011 | MY DEAR FAMILY (YOUTHFULNESS) | | Director | Co -Editor | Line Producer |
| 2011-12 | THE LAST RAINY DREAM | | Director | | |
| 2013 | SEVENTH PASSWORD | | | Editor | |
As an Actor
Bahman Mofid & Adin(Abolfazl) Attar in Behind the scenes of series "Rough Land" Antalya Turkey 2016
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Producer |
|---|
| 1992 | Rainy Night | Older brother | Majid Hamed | Hossein Mahmoudzadeh |
| 2011 | The Last rainy dream | Police Maj. | Adin Attar | Hashem Attar |
| 2012 | Like Glass | University professor | Javad Mozdabadi | Hossein Hosseini |
| 2012 | Once Upon a Time | In two roles | Abolfazl Ahmadian | Mohsen Karami |
| 2015 | The testing season | Kazem Karimi | Navid Torabi | Navid Torabi |
| 2016 | Roulette | Ata Gunesh | Mohsen Rabiei | GEM TV Turkey-Saeed Karimian |
| 2016 | Rough Land | Bahram | Mohammad Ravandi | GEM TV Turkey-Saeed Karimian |
| 2016 | Beautiful City | Tooraj Jamali | Mehdi Mazloumi | GEM TV Turkey-Saeed Karimian |
| 2016 | Borderline | Doctor Parsa | Ahmadreza Garshasbi | GEM TV Turkey-Saeed Karimian |
Awards
| 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, Yugosalvia (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 |
