Abbas Yari

Abbas Yari (Persian: عباس ياري‎‎) is an iranian journalist and film critic. He was born in Arak in 1951. He graduated as a cameraman at the Superior School of Cinema in 1975. Abbas Yari started his professional career as a journalist, and worked until 1981 for the newspapers Sobh e Emrouz, Tehran Mosavvar and Kayhan. In 1968, while still a student, he presided the cultural foundation for youth in his hometown, Arak, being responsible of organizing journalistic, poetry, theater and lectures related events. In the early nineteen seventies, he is interested in theater and writes and directs several plays. Shortly after, he turns his interest to cinema, being in charge for the cinema section of the weekly Ettela'at Haftegi in 1976-1977, and chief editor for the magazine Setareh cinema between 1973 and 1977.

He is one of the three founders of FILM Monthly, the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Massoud Mehrabi and Houshang Golmakani). He still is the executive director of this magazine.

In 1988, he is one of the founding members of the foundation of art critics and writers about Iranian cinema. Between 2002 and 2005, he is in charge of programmation for the Iranian cinema museum in Tehran.