Farid Mostafavi


Farid Mostafavi, born 27 October 1954 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian screenwriter best known for his social realist films set in urban Tehran, several of which were directed and co-written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.

Education

Mostafavi attended the "Institute of Cinema and Television" in 1979 and studied economics at Tehran University.

Career

His career in IRIB began in 1989 and later expanded to film. He has worked as writer and co-producer on "An Outlook to the Cinema", a thirteen-part television program about cinema, as assistant director on "The World Satirist", a ten-part television play, as voice-over writer for documentary films on "Centrality" and "Immigrants", and as researcher and screenwriter on "Crossing from Iran Deserts", a documentary/fiction series.

Filmography