Rakhshan Banietemad (born 3rd of April, 1954) Iranian contemporary director, scenarist, and producer

Educations
She was graduated from Tehran Dramatic Arts (Faculty of Cinema and Theater of Art University) in the field of cinema directorship in 1980

Professional Activities
In 1974 She started her job as the secretary of the stage in Iran National T.V. and up to 1980, she directed some short documentary films.
From 1981 she worked as stage secretary for the films of Sunny Abiders (Aftab Neshinha) and Chrysanthemum Flowers (Golhayeh-e-Davoodi) and from 1987 she ardently followed this process to directorship the movies for cinema. She also experimented with her talent in the field of screen scripting and produced impressive and contemplative films in Iran and the world cinema which was awarded many prizes
Banietemad after receiving the special award of the board of judges of the Asia Pacific Festival announced she plans to sell her award in an auction to establish an asylum for the homeless women of Tehran

Private Life
She married Jahangir Kosari, a cinema producer and sports interpreter and the fruit of this marriage is two offspring: Tandis and Baran. The latest one is an outstanding cinema artist

Works
Documentary Films
• The Culture of extravagance (1985)
• The Occupation of Rustic Immigrants in the Town (1985)
• The War Economic Strategies (1988)
• The Focus (1988)
• From Spring to Spring (1992)
• The Report of 71 (1992)
• To Whom Do You Plan to Show These Films? (1992)
• The Last Meeting with Iran Daftari (1995)
• Beneath the Skin of the Town (1996)
• Our Times (2001)
• The Three Dimensional Carpet (A film from the collection of Persian carpet) (2006)
• The Second House (producer), director, (2008) Mahvash Sheikhol Islami
• The Backyard of the House of the Sun (2008)
• We Are Half of the Iran Population (2009)
• Elina, I See You Tomorrow (2010)
• Room No. 202 (a documentary episode of Kahrizak, Four Views) (2011)
• Let Us Keep the Children in the Schools (a collective work) (2012)
• Beyond the Mirrors (2013)
• The Concert of Mirrors (2013)
• The Concert of the Gods of Mysteries
• Mahak, My Own Home (a collective work), 2014
• All My Trees, 2014
• An Hour of Life, 2014
• O the Men, 2016
• The collection of “Karestan Films” (as the art consultant). The first film: The Poets of Life; the second: The Founder of Mahak; the third film: The People of Tabaresten; the fourth film: The Mother of the Earth; the fifth film: From Cotton to Fire; the sixth film: Puzzle Players (2014)
• Mrs. Tooran (a collective work) (2017)

Movies
• Beyond the Limitation (Kharej az Mahdodeh), 1987
• Canary Yellow (Zard-e-Ghanary), 1988
• Foreign Exchange (Pool-e-Khareji), 1989
• Narges, 1991
• A Woman with Blue Veil (Roosary Abi), 1994
• The Lady of Ordibehesth (Banooy-e-Ordibehesht), 1997
• Rain and the Native (Baran va Boomi), (an episode of the stories of Kish Island), 1998
• Beneath the Skin of the Town, 2000
• Gilaneh, 2004
• The Addicted Ones (Khoon Bazi), 2006
• Heyran (producer); director: Shalizeh Arefpoor, 2008
• Stories (Qesseh-ha), 2001

The Awards for the Films
For the film Focus, 2011:
• Tablet of Appreciation from the Festival of Rural Art and Literature

For the film Beyond the Limitation, 1987:
• The prize of Festival of Comic Films (Italy) 1988

For the film Canary Yellow, 1988:
• The prize of the 2nd best actor from the Fajr Film Festival

For the film of Narges, 1991:
• The Crystal Simorgh for the best directorship from the Fajr Film Festival
• The Crystal Simorgh for the best film script
• The special award of Iran Movie Critics from the Film Journal
• The award of the best film of Movie Critics, the Journal of Gozaresh-e-Film
• The award of the best directorship of Movie Critics, the Journal of Gozaresh-e-Film
• The award for the best film script of Movie Critics, the Journal of Gozaresh-e-Film

For the film The Woman with Blue Veil:
• The award for the best film script of Fajr Film Festival
• The award for the best 2nd actress, Fajr Film Festival
• The silver award of The Center of Iran Cinema Directors
• The award of Iran Movie Critics, the Journal of Film
• The award of audience from the Journal of Gozaresh-e-Film
• The award of International Critics Thessalonica (Greek), 2007
• The award of silver peacock (the best woman director of Asia), Delhi Festival (India), 2017
• The award of bronzy jaguar, Lucarno International Festival (Switzerland), 2016

For the film of the Lady of Ordibehesht, 1997:
• The special award of the board of judges of Iran Cinema, Fajr Film Festival
• The special award of the board of judges of International Section, Fajr Film Festival
• The tablet of appreciation of International Critics “Fipersci”, Montreal Film Festival (Canada), 1998

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