Name Rafi Pitts Role Film director | Parents Malek Jahan Khazai Education Harrow College | |
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Born 1967 Mashad, Iran Movies The Hunter, It's Winter, Argo, 60 Seconds of Solitude i, Season Five Similar People Ateneh Faghih Nasiri, Mitra Hajjar, Roya Nonahali, Amir Naderi, Bahram Beyzai | ||
Rafi pitts iff prague febiofest 2011 press conference
Rafi Pitts (Persian: رفیع پیتز, born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Contents
- Rafi pitts iff prague febiofest 2011 press conference
- The hunter rafi pitts
- Life and career
- Representative awards and honors
- Filmography
- References
The hunter rafi pitts
Life and career
Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.
Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.
In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and he was the first film director (in exile) to do so since the Revolution in 1979. His first feature Season Five (1997) was the first Franco-Iranian coproduction since the Revolution.
In 2006, he was nominated for Golden Bear award of Berlin Film Festival for his film, It's Winter. His 2010 film The Hunter was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2016 Film Soy Nero won the best film award at the 12th Bucharest International Film festival , in april 2016