Hatamikia Picked As Artist of the Year
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Art & Culture April 18, 2019 3 This Day in History Hatamikia Picked As (April 18) Today is Thursday; 29th of the Iranian month of Farvardin 1398 solar hijri; corresponding to 12th of the Islamic month of Sha’ban 1440 lunar hijri; and Artist of the Year April 18, 2019, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. 942 lunar years ago, on this day in 498 AH, Spanish physician and hadith Artist of the Year for the Persian calendar year scholar, Hassan ibn Hafez al-Ghassani al-Andalusi, passed away. He wrote of 1397. He won nomination for the same title a biography of prominent figures. last year too, for making and screening of his 702 lunar years ago, on this day in 738 AH, the Sarbadar movement film ‘Damascus Time’. was launched in Khorasan by Imami religious scholar, Sheikh Khalifa Hatamikia has competed with three other Mazandarani, against the repressive rule of the Ilkhanid Mongols, especially filmmakers and documentarians, including the local governor Togha Timur, who was notorious for his cruelty and high Mehdi Naqavian, Mohammad-Ali Bashe- taxation of the people. Ahangar, and Kourosh Zarei to attain the title. 593 lunar years ago, on this day in 847 AH, Abdur-Razzaq Samarqandi, The director expressed joy in his acceptance the Iranian ambassador to the Deccan (southern India) ended his year-long speech saying, ‘I’m so happy to be seen and stay in Hampi at the court of the Raja of Vijaynagar, Deva Raya II. He recognized in the fortieth anniversary of the was sent from the then Iranian capital, Herat (presently in Afghanistan), by Islamic Revolution. It is a precious moment to the ruler Shahrukh (son and successor of the fearsome Turkic conqueror me and I am proud of it’. Amir Timur), on a three-year mission, mostly to the court of the Zamorin of Hatamikia has been active in the arena of Calicut (Kozikhode in Kerala). filmmaking for almost 38 years. He established 482 lunar years ago, on this day in 958 AH, the Ottoman fleet under the himself as a director who addresses issues command of Turgut Ra’ees freed the Libyan sea port of Tripoli from the 21- related to the Iraq-Iran war and its aftermath year occupation of the Christian Knights. with films such as ‘The Scout’, ‘From Karkheh 429 solar years ago, on this day in 1590 AD, Ahmed I, the 14th Ottoman to Rhine’ and ‘The Glass Agency’. Sultan and the 6th self-styled Turkish caliph, was born. He has so far received several domestic 242 lunar years ago, on this day in 1197 AH, Ottoman marines dispersed and international awards for ‘In the Name 75 Spanish warships which were trying to land forces at Algerian ports as a of My Father’, ‘Red Ribbon’, ‘The Glass step for occupying it. Agency’, ‘From Karkheh to Rhine’, ‘Mohajer 133 solar years ago, on this day in 1886 AD, Persian newssheet Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia. (Immigrant)’, ‘The Scout’, ‘The Purple’, and “Qanoun” (Law), was published in London during his exile from Iran by ‘Che (Chamran)’. Mirza Malkam Khan, an Iranian Armenian who claimed to have converted TEHRAN (IFILM) - Ifilm ‘Bodyguard’ Iran’s Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology He won the best director award at the 36th to Islam. It was banned in Iran since it attacked the Qajarid Shah and called director Ebrahim Hatamikia has been picked as Dissemination Organization has announced edition of the Fajr Film Festival for directing for so-called modernization on West European patterns. Malkam Khan, Islamic Revolution Artist of the Year. Ebrahim Hatamikia as the Islamic Revolution ‘Damascus Time. who set up societies similar to the Freemasons in Iran in 1859, was a controversial person, who was exiled several times, until he was reinstated as ambassador to Italy by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah in 1898 with the title of Novel 5-Minute Nezam od-Dowlah. Award-Winning American Film 124 lunar years ago, on this day in 1316 AH, acclaimed Iranian theologian, and physician, Seyyed ol-Atibba Tabrizi, passed away. He was born in the Workout northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, and learned sciences in his hometown Critic Attends Fajr Film Festival by attending the classes of renowned ulema. He honed his skills in medicine Improves Blood TEHRAN (MNA) - Renowned American screenwriter, as well and became a leading physician. He has left behind numerous books, director, and film critic Paul Schrader is a special guest of the including “Tarikh-e Tabriz” (History of Tabriz). Pressure, Brain 37th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. 80 solar years ago, on this day in 1939 AD, Leader of Islamic Revolution, He will hold a workshop on transcendental style in film, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Husseini Khamenei, was born in holy Mashhad, as well. in Khorasan in a religious family. He learned Islamic sciences under his Function Born July 22, 1946, Schrader has penned some cinematic scholarly father, Seyyed Jawad, and in 1958 left for the holy city of Qom classics. Schrader’s script about an obsessed New York where he stayed for seven years studying theology, jurisprudence and City taxi driver became Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver Islamic philosophy under prominent lecturers such as Grand Ayatollah (1976), which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture Seyyed Hussain Boroujerdi, Allamah Seyyed Mohammad Hussain and won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Besides Tabatabai, and the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini Taxi Driver, Scorsese also drew on scripts by Schrader for (RA). For a brief period he was in holy Najaf in Iraq, before returning to the boxing tale Raging Bull (1980), co-written with Mardik his hometown Mashhad, where he became a leading preacher, opposed to Martin, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing the oppressive Pahlavi regime. As a result he was detained and on several Out the Dead (1999). American screenwriter, director, and film critic occasions banished for exposing the corruption of the British-installed and Schrader has also directed several feature films, including Paul Schrader. US-backed regime. On the threshold of the victory of the Iranian people’s his directing debut crime drama, Blue Collar (1978), the Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer is movement, he was instated by Imam Khomeini as a member of the Islamic crime drama Hardcore (1979), the crime drama American translated to Persian. Revolution Council. Following victory of the Islamic Revolution, he was A volunteer demonstrates Gigolo (1980), his 1982 remake of the horror classic Cat Other special guests of the 37th FIFF include Dimitri Alips, assigned important posts such as the Imam’s representative at the High Inspiratory Muscle Strength People, the biographical drama Mishima: A Life in Four international sales manager of Courant 3d Film Festival; Defence Council. In 1981, he was elected as president of the Islamic Training at the University of Chapters (1985), the true life biopic Patty Hearst (1988), Julie Bertucelli, who worked as assistant Director to a series Republic and four years later was re-elected for the second term. In 1981, Colorado Boulder. The Comfort of Strangers (1990), the cult film Light Sleeper of well-known directors including Krystof Kieslowski, while preaching in a mosque, he was the target of a terrorist bomb blast, and (1992), the drama Affliction (1997), and the biographical Bertrand Tavernier, and Rithy Panh; Turkish writer and sustained serious injuries. In June 1989, after the passing away of Imam WASHINGTON (Dispatches) film Auto Focus (2002). film critic Rıza Oylum, Romanian director and screenwriter Khomeini, he was elected as the new Leader of the Islamic Revolution by - Five minutes daily of Inspiratory Schrader received his first Oscar nomination in 2018, for Adina Pintilie, and Chinese producer and director Liu Xuan. the Assembly of Experts in view of his piety, prudence, popularity, political Muscle Strength Training lowers original screenplay for First Reformed. He also directed Presided over by award-winning writer and director Seyyed acumen, knowledge, managerial skills, and familiarity with current issues in blood pressure, improves vascular the film, in which Ethan Hawke stars as a small-town Reza Mirkarimi, the 37th edition of Fajr International Film Iran, the region, and the world. Over the past 29 years, Ayatollah Khamenei health, boosts fitness and sharpens parish pastor undergoing a deep crisis of faith. His book, Festival will be held in Tehran on April 18-26. has ably discharged his duties to the benefit of Iran, and the Islamic world. memory, according to preliminary 65 solar years ago, on this day in 1954 AD, Col. Jamal Abdun-Nasser results. seized power in Egypt by ousting coup colleague President General Preliminary results from a clinical Mohammad Najeeb and declaring himself president. Nasser, who advocated trial of Inspiratory Muscle Strength pan Arabism and supported leftist anti-monarchic movements in Arab states, Training (IMST), presented this brutally suppressed Islamic parties, especially the “Ikhwan al-Muslimeen” week at the Experimental Biology (Muslim Brotherhood). He nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, a move that conference in Orlando, suggest led to war with Britain, France and Israel. He meddled in the Yemen civil “yes.” war by sending forces which were bogged down for years and weakened “IMST is basically strength- Egypt. As a result, Egypt, along with Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, suffered training for the muscles you breathe a humiliating defeat in the 6-day June 1967 war against the illegal Zionist in with,” said Daniel Craighead, a entity, which with US and western help occupied the Sinai Peninsula postdoctoral researcher in the the including Egyptian-controlled Gaza. He died in 1970. University of Colorado Boulder 64 solar years ago, on this day in 1955 AD, the first conference of Integrative Physiology department representatives of Asian and African states was held in the Indonesian city who is leading the study.