Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: Film Festival, Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran Green Movement, Iranian Artists, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, One World Film Festival, Prague, RFE/RL
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 10, 2010
By Kristin Deasy
The poster advertising the opening of Europe’s largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.
She’s also wearing a green jacket. It’s a good fit for the festival’s opening film, “Green Days,” [...]
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Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: Citizen Journalism, Iran Green Movement, Iran Protests, Iranian Citizen Journalists, Iranian Film, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Twitter Revolution
Mohsen Makhmalbaf refers to Iran’s citizen journalists that have been protesting and filming those protests using cell phone cameras, and distributing those films via the use of Internet technology and social media as “real artists.”
I agree.
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Posted on 20 November 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Featured, International Relations, Iran Green Movement, Iran Military, Iran Opposition, Iran Protests, IRGC, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Revolutionary Guards, sanctions, U.S.-Iran Negotiations, U.S.-Iran Relations
(WashingtonTV)
Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said on Thursday that US President Barack Obama should increase his public support for Iran’s democratic movement, and intensify sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Makhmalbaf, who has become a spokesperson outside of Iran for the main opposition movement, said that the movement supports targeted economic sanctions [...]
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