Bahman maghsoudlou

Bahman Maghsoudlou (born in Gorgan, Iran, 1946) is a film scholar and critic, and is the recepient of Iran's Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater (1975). These include widely acclaimed Iranian Cinema which are published in 1987 by New York University,s center for Middle Eastern studies and is used around the world as a resource on the history of Persian films.Maghsoudlou wrote and directed and produced the short documentaries on Ardeshir Mohasses and his caricatures (1972),and, Ahmad Mahmoud (2004).

As a producer his films have been to more than 100 film festivals world wide.These films include ;The suitor, "Cannes 1988", Manahattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi)"Venice, Toronto 1993", Seven Servants (by Daryush Shokof) "Berlin, Toronto, Locarno 1996", Silence of the sea "Mannheim Film Festival 2003".

He is currently producing and directing a feature length documentary on the history of Iranian Cinema entitled, "Iranian Cinema, Searching for the roots" 1900-1979, and the Documentary "the life and legacy of Mohammad Mosaddegh".Having organized the first -ever Iranian Film Festival in New York in 1980, he organized the International short Film Festival: In dependent Films in Iran, which was held in October 2007, in New York.A graduate in cinema studies from the city university of New York (Staten Island) with a PhD from Columbia, Maghsoudlou lives in New York.

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