Iranian filmmaker joins Italian film festival jury

Iranian filmmaker Farnoush Samadi has joined the international jury at the 24th edition of the ARCIPELAGO International Festival of Short Film and New Images in Italy.

The award-winning Iranian screenwriter and filmmaker joined Elena Cotta, the Italian actress who won the award for best actress at the Venice Film Festival, Italy, in 2013, and Morgan Simon, the young French filmmaker who took the New Directors Award at the Saint Sebastian Film Festival, Spain, in 2016.

The three are set to judge 22 films in the international section of the Italian event.

Samadi’s latest work, the short film ‘Gaze’, premiered this summer in the 70th edition of the Lorcano Festival in Italy. The film also won the Grand Jury Award for best live action short film in the 31st edition of the American Film Institute Festival this November.

A graduate from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Samadai has so far co-written four short films with Ali Asgari, including ‘The Silence’, which premiered in the Cannes in 2016 and won several international awards, including those from the Sydney Flickerfest 2017 and the Berlin International Short Film Festival in 2016.

Founded in 1992, ARCIPELAGO - International Festival of Short Films and New Images is a project with the aim of worldwide search and acknowledgement of the most original drives and of the most innovative film languages developing inside non-standard audiovisual formats - starting with short films and including products belonging to the new digital domain and to the Web's borderless immaterial landscapes.

The 24th ARCIPELAGO has been slated for December 4-10, 2017, in Rome, Italy.

MG/AI