Art Bureau nominates Islamic Revolution Artists of the year

Iran’s Art Bureau has nominated Islamic Revolution Artists of the year in nine different categories.

The winner will be announced on the closing day of the Islamic Revolution Art Week on April 15, Ali Forouzanfar, deputy director of the Art Bureau, the organizers of the event, said during a press conference on Saturday.

In the cinema category, documentarian Mohsen Eslamzadeh received a nomination. Director Mohammad Kheirandish was nominated for his animated movie ‘Dolphin Boy’, and Hossein Darabi was picked for his ‘Henas’, which portrays the true story of the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was shot dead by Mossad agents.

Graphic designer Masoud Nejabati, miniaturist Mina Sadri, illustrator Mohammad-Reza Doust-Mohammadi and cartoonist Mohammad-Hossein Niroumand are competing for the title in the visual art category.

Poet Mehdi Jandar and writer Ali-Asghar Ezzati-Pak have been nominated in the literature section, while songwriter Mohammad-Mehdi Sayyar received a nomination in the music category.

Writers Golestan Jafarian and Hedayatollah Behboudi are competing for the title in the resistance literature section.

Stage director Ayyub Aqakhani was picked in the dramatic arts category and Mehrdad Seddiqi was selected in the satire section.

Ali-Asghar Fahimifar is contending for the title in the research section, while Seyyed-Abbas Mirhashemi is competing in the photography category.

The deputy director said that the selecting team is still indecisive about nominees for the architecture and painting categories. Nominees for the sections will be announced during the weeklong festival. 

For the first time, the organizers also plan to select a person for his/her lifetime achievements as the Eternal Figure. They will also choose an event as the Top Revolutionary Event of the Year.

Painter Abdolhamid Qadirian was named the 2021 Islamic Revolution Artist of the Year.

The Islamic Revolution Art Week is organized every year to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of documentarian Morteza Avini.

He was killed by a landmine in 1993 during his last trip to the former Iraq-Iran war zone in southwest of Iran while making a documentary about soldiers who were still listed as missing in action.   

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