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Biography
Sarvnaz Alambeigi (Persian: سروناز علم بیگی; born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian documentary film director, film producer, painter, and poet. Her most notable work is 1001 Nights Apart, a 2022 documentary film.
Life and career
Sarvnaz Alambeigi was born in the city of Tehran. She received her degree Bachelor of Arts in painting from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. She received film training from 2013 to 2018 at Documentary Campus Masterschool and Danish Film School. She started her art profession in 2000 with her first painting exhibition. In 2013, she founded her own film production company, Rabison Art. She is currently a member of Film Fatales, the European Women's Audiovisual Network, and the Association of Iranian Documentary Cinema Directors.
Her most notable work is 1001 Nights Apart, which was released in 2022 in Germany and In May 2022 won the VFF Documentary Film Produktion Award at DOK.fest Munich, a documentary film depicting Iran's pre and post Islamic revolution era. The focus of this film is on ballet dancers and underground dancers of Iran in two periods of time, before and after the Islamic revolution in 1979.
In 2021, Alambeigi won the Sunny Side of the Doc prize for her global issues pitch and was later selected as a jury member for the 2022 season of prizes. In October 2021, her upcoming film Broken Flower won Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at 64th edition of DOK Leipzig.
In June 2017, her short film Cypher And Lion (Noghteh Va Shir) was released at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after the opening ceremony for the "The Lions of Iran" exhibit by Tanavoli in 2017. The plot depicts the fall of sculpture culture in Iran after its Islamization and Parviz Tanavoli, the father of modern Iranian sculpture, reviving it after centuries.
Notable works
Film
| Year | Name | Genre | Credit | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Second Room | Short/Documentary | Director/producer | |
| 2017 | Tomorrowland | Documentary | Writer/director/producer | |
| 2017 | Cypher And Lion | Documentary | Director | |
| 2022 | 1001 Nights Apart | Documentary | Writer/director/producer | The VFF Documentary Film Produktion Award at DOK.fest Munich |
Publication(s)
- There Between Two Worlds, her first novella, was published by Ettefagh Publications in 2020.
- Stork and Snow , her poetry book, was published by Nazar Publishing in 2023.
Artwork
- The diary, a solo artwork exhibited in October 2021 at Etemad 1 Gallery, Tehran.
- Conversation, a performance and a solo artwork exhibited in October 2015 at Shirin Gallery, Tehran.
