Italy director to judge at Iran festival

Prominent Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi has been selected as Iran’s Cinema Verite jury member.

The famous Italian director and producer has been selected to judge at the 11th edition of the Iranian festival.

Gianfranco Rosi is an Italian director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter.

He is the only documentary filmmaker to win two top prizes from the major European film festivals in Cannes, Berlin and Venice.

The 11th Cinema Verite is aimed at protection of the nation's identity, promoting creative documentary, reinforcing the link between documentary cinema and social facts and events, introducing new global developments in documentary cinema, providing financial support for documentarians by distributing and screening their works in other festivals and removing hurdles to film production.

The 11th edition of the Cinema Verite is slated for December 10-17 in Tehran.

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