Farhad Najafi

Life and career

Farhad was born in Neishahpour(Nishapur), Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. The greatest joy of his childhood and adolescence was watching films and photography with an amateur camera. By the age of fifteen he got the acceptance and attended IRIB conservatory as he was eager to learn media professionally. At that time the directing and film-making department was full so he was left with majoring in graphic design as his only choice. Soon, he found out his passion for graphic design and started to learn professional photography and usage of colors. He believed studying graphic turned out very well and helped him through his career as director later on.

A few months after studying at the Conservatory, he made his first documentary film called Iran and Naria. He faced many obstacles and problems working as a teenager in the competitive film industry, but that only motivated him more to succeed. He made a short film called "motion" (action) four months after finishing the documentary. He was very impressed at Oliver Stone's theory about directing and his emphasis on learning the techniques of making cinematic art and its importance in becoming a good director and how a great director only succeeds by being a good editor.

Farhad Najafi pursued cinematic editing and edited his next short film on his own. At the age of Nineteen and after making four short films, he began writing the screenplay of his first movie called First Move where he also did all the visual effects. The turning point in his career was the release of his second movie called Room Number Zero which took him high up in the success ladder. The movie had a drama and action genre. He then directed an action series called (Matador) which came out in 11 episodes, and is the most successful action Iranian TV-show up to this point in Iran. Making successful action films has always been a tough job due to the minimum technology and low budgets given in Iran which Farhad Najafi has aced in all his projects.