A Man Called Brian

"A man called Brian" is a documentary film by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh. [ [http://www.bpmedia.org/shownewsitem.aspx?newsid=30 A review of the film on BP News] ] This documentary is about a 55 year-old Briton called Brian Haw [ [http://www.parliament-square.org.uk Official website of Brian Haw] ] who has left his home, his wife and seven children in the south of England and has come to London to stage a 24-hour sit-in opposite the Houses of Parliament for over seven years in protest against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan by the US and British military forces. In this film, he argues that because the war ends in deaths of thousands of people, it should stop.

Festival Participations:

*Arizona International Film Festival in USA, April 2005, [ [http://www.azmac.org/2005/festival/sched_tues19.html Arizona International Film Festival's list of participating films. ("A man called Brian" is under the 8:00pm paragraph)] ]

*Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, 2005 [ [http://www.fajrfestival.ir/english/Fajr/asp/filmdetails.asp?id=2269 A review of the film on the Fajr Film Festival website] ] [ [http://www.fajrfestival.ir/english/Fajr/asp/competition2.asp?c_id=88 Fajr Film Festival website displaying this film among other films on show] ]

*2nd Festival of TV production of IRIB, Foreign Bureoux, Prize winner for the best director, 2005,

Technical specifications and Film crew:

"A man called Brian"

*Betacam SP, 40 mins, Documentary, Iran-England, 2005

*Script writer and director: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh

*Narrator: Rozina Behrooz

*Music by: Pouya Shoolizadeh

*Photographer and editor: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh

*Producer: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh ( I.R.I.B, London, England )

References