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Daryush Shokof is an artist and film-maker who left Iran in the 1970s for the U.S. and under the name of AliReza Shokoufandeh. He studied mathematics and physics at E.N.M.U. and then went on to get a masters degree in management from U.D. in Texas. He became a full-time artist in Germany where he moved to from New York in early 1980s. He coined the term maximalism in the arts in 1990 in Cologne Germany, and together with many of the artists of the time they made many exhibitions under the maximalists at Gallery Schulze in Cologne in 1990, both in Europe and in the U.S. He first made a name for himself as a script-writer by copying works from two great directors of the time Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, changing the names of the characters and some situations and presented them to his father as his own works, which made his father believe he was a genius. He was soon the talk of a bigger circle of friends and family and had to write at a level to match his great idols from the age of eleven years. None of his writings ever showed any promise until finally and at age 42 he wrote a story which attracted the attention of two of the legendary names of cinema. Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn both wanted to have the lead in Seven Servants. Quinn played the role along with David Warner, who played the role offered to Norman Mailer (who was so in admiration of the story that refused to play the role saying his acting was not up to the task). In the next 10 years he did more than 12 feature films and 10 short films with great originality both in writing and directing. He has made his movies through the help of private friends and contribution and cooperation from a great many professionals who believed and supported in his abilities as a film-maker. He has never had any of his movies released to the public and has never received any funding for any of his films from any official film industry companies, or from any country. He continues making films under amazing conditions, which in itself is truly a story to make a film about.- Actor
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Taies Farzan was born in Tehran, Iran. Her family moved to Turkey and thereafter to Germany. She speaks Persian, Turkish, German, English, Kurdish. She was on stage at the age of 14 in Cologne Germany and appeared in lead positions in more than 15 stage pieces until she met Daryush Shokof in a casting for a film which got her interest bent more towards the movies rather than Theater. She has been a long associate of Shokof with whom she produced 2 movies and acted in 2 films of Shokof as the lead (Tenussian Vacuvasco, and Breathful). She has two sisters Doris and Candice. Her mother is Farkhondeh and they all live in Germany. Her father was a famous Iranian actor, Dubbing master, who also Directed films before they left Iran after the revolution. Her mother was a well known Radio personality as well as a popular Voice Dub personality in the Iranian cinema before the revolution.- Actress
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Narges Rashidi was born in Iran, settled in 1987 with her family at first in Turkey and a year later to Germany. After graduation she moved to Berlin and studied acting. In 2005 she attended in Los Angeles the Master Class with MK Lewis. In 2007 she received the award for Best Young Actress at the New York International Independent Film Video Festival for her role as Lolita in A2Z. The German public knows her, among other things through her roles in Schwarze Schafe, Schimanski: Schicht im Schacht, Breathful, Dating Lancelot and KDD. In 2012 Narges Rashidi will be one of the main cast of a new Sat.1 series.- Editor
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Daryoush Zandi is known for Wordlessness (2012).- Producer
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Marie Selva was born in Paris to an Iranian Mother and French/Spanish Father.She is an artist, film director who studied at the film school of cinema in Paris, France. She travel around the world and she is fascinated by people. After long trip and so many short movie and documentary she start her first Independent feature film "Hole of Life" written , Produced, and Directed by her in Paris, France in 2015.
the story attracted much support from cast and crew due to it's originality and real life drama power.- Actor
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- Souzan Alavi was born in November 1978 in Babol, Iran. She is an actress, known for Die Box (2013), Der letzte Tropfen (2017) and Joy: The Real Love Story (2007).
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Navid Navid is an award winning Iranian-German actor and director. He was born in Teheran, Iran in 1980, but left his home country at the age of five with his family as refugees and resettled in Germany in 1985.
Due to his fathers profession as an event manager, Navid was introduced to the stage and the world of entertainment from the age of six as a singer and dancer. During his younger years Navid was successful in the Iranian music industry with his pop band 'Navid & Omid'. The band released two studio albums ('Faryad' & 'Kolli Sefaresh') as well as several music videos during that time.
In 2001 he graduated as an actor at the School for Performing Arts in Cologne, and started working as an actor in film, TV and theatre.
Amongst several theater engagements at different theaters in Germany he played the role of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeares 'Macbeth', and portrayed Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' at the 'Altonaer Theater' in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2003, his first leading role in Elmar Fischer's "Fremder Freund", gained Navid a nomination at the Munich Filmfestival in the category "Best Actor in a Leading Role". In the same year the film won the acclaimed "First Steps Award", the "Digital Visions Award" as well as the Audience Award at the "Filmz Mainz" film festival.
His other leading roles include Mohsen in the German cultural comedy "Salami Aleikum", which became a hit in Germany and Austria. He also had a leading role in the comedy "45 Minutes to Ramallah" and the drama "For a Moment Freedom", which won 30 awards at international film festivals and was the Austrian entry for the Academy Awards in 2009.
In 2017 Navid played alongside Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek in the Hollywood production "Septembers of Shiraz", which is available on Netfilx.
As a director, he has won multiple international awards at film-festivals for his music videos "November's Fall" and "Habs", which he made for the Iranian legendary singer Ebi. The music video "Behesht", which he directed for the Iranian legendary singer Googoosh, gathered international attention for being the first Iranian music video portraying a lesbian love story.
Navid also works as a voice actor who has dubbed the lead role of Al from the CBS sitcom "United States of Al" for the German speaking audience. In 2020 he narrated Dalia Sofer's novel Man of My Time for Audible.
Besides working as an actor and director, Navid also works as a guest teacher and gives workshops on how to direct actors and produce music videos at the film-school SAE in Berlin.- Actress
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She played in the woman-band "Even Cowgirls get the blues", which also helped her to play her part in the movie Bandits (1997). She wrote most of the songs for the Soundtrack of "Bandits". On 3rd December 2002, her first child, a girl named Angelina Sherri Rose, was born. Father of the child is the American musician Tico Zamora, who lives in Berlin with Jasmin.
In 2003, Jasmin will also take part in the tour of German singer Nena (tour is called "Nena & Friends") and she helped Nena to make the English project "Red Nose Day" more popular in Germany.