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The Noor Iranian Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Los Angeles, California, founded by cultural producer Siamak Ghahremani and co-founder Anthony Azizi in 2007. The festival's namesake comes from the word Nur, also spelled Noor, meaning to shed light or "noor," on Iranian culture and heritage through Iranian cinema. Additional to the main annual festival in Los Angeles, a tour of the program has made several return trips to cities such as Daytona Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

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The Los Angeles festival has been held at such venues as the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA Campus, Laemmle's Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills and Magnin Auditorium at the Skirball Cultural Center. It has taken place every year since 2007, with the exception of 2010, where due to Iran's political uprising in 2010, and out of respect for the people in Iran, the festival decided to postpone its 4th festival to 2011. The postponement was also due to a lack of sponsorship and seed money for the festival.

1st annual noor iranian film festival opening night gala 2007


Programming

The program blocks have included feature films, documentaries, short films and animated films, all of which were selected to shed light on Iranian culture and heritage. Their submission guidelines for filmmakers state: "NIFF accepts films from Iranian filmmakers, films made about Iran or Iranians, and/or films that include Iranians as part of the cast or crew."

Judges

1st Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Natasha Henstridge, Maz Jobrani, Harry Lennix, Shaun Toub, Kyle Secor

    • 2nd Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Shohreh Aghdashloo, Reza Badiyi, Rainn Wilson, Omid Djalili, Ever Carradine

    • 3rd Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Brooke Adams, Esai Morales, Habib Zargarpour, Rudi Bakhtiar, Ali Pourtash

    • 4th Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Corey Feldman, Kami Asgar, Max Martini, Bai Ling, Frances Fisher

    • 5th Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Navid Negahban, Homa Sarshar, Behrouz Vossoughi, Tony Plana, Kristoff St. John

    • 6th Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Marshall Manesh, Dennis Haysbert, Faraj Heidari

    • 7th Annual Noor Film Festival Judges

  • Omid Abtahi, Mahnaz Afshar, Catherine Dent

    • Awards

    Additional to judged awards for films screened at the festival, the event selects honorary recipients with a career achievement award. In 2013 the festival announced that the Achievement Award would be renamed the Reza Badiyi Achievement Award, in honor of the director/producer Reza Badiyi, recipient of the festival’s first Achievement Award in 2009.

    References

    Noor Iranian Film Festival Wikipedia
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