America’s Meihodo Int’l Youth Media fest to host ‘Huntsman’

Iranian short documentary film ‘Huntsman’ has been added to the Iranian lineup of the 4th annual Meihodo International Youth Media Festival (MIYVMF) in the US. 

Produced and made by Delavar Doustanian, the documentary will be competing at the 2022 Meihodo Int’l Youth Visual Media Festival which is one of the largest short film festivals in the world.

‘Huntsman’ is a romantic adventure documentary that was filmed in a plain of the same name at seventy-five kilometers of Ilam Province in western Iran.

The doc is the love story of two reptiles from the lizard family called Agama who live in peace until a predator enters their territory and causes trouble for them.

‘Huntsman’ was previously screened at the 23rd Int’l Environmental Film Festival «Green Vision» in Russia, the 2022 Aporia International village Film Festival in South Korea, the 2020 Int’l Ecological TV Festival “To Save and Preserve” in Russia and the Human Environment Care Film Festival (HECare) in Canada.

The flick was also crowned best at the 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival.

Doustanian’s another documentary ‘Slow and Sluggish’ and ‘Grape Season’ by Behrouz Khorram are also other Iranian contenders at the festival.

This year, Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Michael Douglas will serve as guest of honor and advisor at the Meihodo Int’l Youth Visual Media Festival. Douglas will appear during the short film festival’s 2022 virtual awards ceremony to announce the grand prize winner and offer insights to young filmmakers.

The ceremony will be organized via Japan-based Meihodo’s U.S. headquarters in New York City, and stream on YouTube for U.S. audiences on February 22, 2022.

Founded in 2018, the festival aims to bring young filmmakers from around the world together to celebrate the art of filmmaking.

The theme of this year’s festival will be “Dreaming Big in the Digital Revolution.”

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