Said Manafi

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Said Manafi
Said Manafi (2016)

Said Manafi (born August 9, 1943 in Tabriz ) is an Iranian-Austrian director and cameraman .

Life

Said Manafi came to Vienna to study at the Film Academy. He completed a double degree in directing and production at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , Department of Film and Television, and a doctorate degree at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , Department of Cultural and Intellectual History.

Manafi works as a freelance director and cameraman in various film and television productions (including ORF , Sascha-Film , Televisfilm, Cinecoop, Wien-Film and SHB-Film). From 1997 he worked at the Federal Institute for Scientific Film (ÖWF) with a focus on producing various documentaries in the field of ethnology, responsible for directing and producing the script in collaboration with various scientific authors. From 1997 to 2009 he was a director and cameraman in the Austrian media library . His films have been shown in retrospectives (including in the 1994 Votive Summer Cinema) and in film weeks in Austria and Iran.

Manafi takes on teaching activities in the field of film and video at irregular intervals, with a focus on dramaturgy and making documentary films.

Manafi is co-founder of the Austrian Filmmaker-Cooperation and the Association of Iranian Artists in Austria. He was a member of the Austrian Camera Association, is a member of the Iranian Documentary Film Association, Khaneh Cinama and has been a member of Künstlerhaus Wien since 2019 .

Filmography / publications

  • 1975 "For the Forgotten" - Amnesty International - documentary
  • 1976 “Vineta”, play - video project
  • 1977 “Haiti, Africa in the Caribbean” documentary
  • 1978 “Journey of Space in the Line of Time” - experimental film
  • 1979 "O mein Jojo" - Portrait of a Clown - Documentary-Feature Film
  • 1980 "The Hangman of the Fidji Islands" - portrait of an unemployed executioner
  • 1981 "Karl Renner and his time" - contemporary history; together with Norbert readers
  • 1982 “Impression of a Movement” - together with various Austrian “Artists for Peace”.
  • 1983 "The Mouse Victory" - Persian fable - animated film.
  • 1984 "Timghriwin" - collective wedding in the High Atlas, author N. Mylius
  • 1985 "Eat All Gods" - A voodo ceremony in Port au Prince
  • 1987/88 “Departure into suffering. March 1938 ”, documentation
  • 1988 "Autism - the step to you", together with the University of Vienna
  • 1990 "Accompong - black rebels in Jamaica" historical and cultural resistance of the Rastafari today, author and production manager DDr. W. Zips, University of Vienna, Narration Axel Corti.
  • 1991 "Bir Gün (a Day)", portrait of a village in Anatolia, together with Werner Bauer
  • 1991 "With skin and hair", documentary. The 500-year-old tanners' quarter in Istanbul before it was razed, together with Werner Bauer
  • 1993–1995 “The poets grow in Sivas” - Alevis in Turkey, documentary, together with Werner Bauer
  • 1994/95 “Social Housing in Vienna” (from Karl-Marx-Hof to terraced houses), on behalf of the municipality of Vienna
  • 1999 "The other", short film (d. Last hours by Marcus Omofuma)
  • 1997–2009 Documentation for the Austrian Media Library, responsible for the design of more than 100 video projects from the fields of literature, politics, science, art and everyday life, oral stories by simple craftsmen as well as by prominent artists and scientists. See catalogs of the Austrian Media Library.
  • 2012 "Abbas Kiarostami - Cinema of Poetry and Modernity", biography about Abbas Kiarostami

Awards

  • “O mein Jojo”, Moscow International Film Festival, Austrian contribution, honorary diploma 1981.
  • “The Hangman of the Fidji Islands”, Austrian contribution to the international London film festival, Honor 1983.
  • "Timghriwin. Collective Wedding in the High Atlas ”, nomination for Goldene Kader in Vienna 1988, International Tehran Film Festival 1988 with bronze sculpture, Semana International de Cine Ronda, Spain 1987 (Mencion de Honor).
  • "Autism", International Educational Film Festival Iran 1989 - bronze statuette.
  • "Atomabsorbation", Festival Nitra, CSSR 1989, 2nd prize.
  • "Bir Gün - a day", 6th Annual Pärnu International Visual Anthropology Festival: Special Jury Prize 1991.
  • "With skin and hair", XV Semana Internacional de Cine Cientifico in Ronda, Spain 1992: Award for the best cut.
  • “The poets grow in Sivas”, Cinema du Reel, Paris, Bilan de Film Etnografic 1997, jury management Jean Rouch, with the “Prix Bartok”.
  • “Poets grow in Sivas”, 9th boarding school. Ethno-Documentary Film Festival Sicily, Italy 1999: Best film of the festival awarded ATS 120,000.
  • “The other”, 15th boarding school. Film Festival Black Cinema Berlin 2000: Best film in its category.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ www.k-haus .
  2. ↑ Short version of the film
  3. ^ Said Manafi in the general catalog of the Austrian Media Library
personal data
SURNAME Manafi, Said
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-Austrian director and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz