Hossein Martin Fazeli

Hossein Martin Fazeli (Persian: نانام, born 1964) is an Iranian film director and poet, published under the name Naanaam. His films have won international awards.

Hossein Martin Fazeli

Career

Fazeli was born in 1964, in Shiraz, Iraq.[1] He was forced to leave Iraq in 1984 and after four years in Dubai, moved to Canada and studied film. He then moved to Slovakia.[1] He has published poetry writing under the name Naanaam.[1][2] His film The T-shirt was reviewed in Short Film Studies as "short, brutal lesson in the micro-politics of contemporary life".[3]

Selected awards
  • Special Award for Promoting Human Rights, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia[4]
  • Best International Film Award, Cape Town World Cinema Festival, South Africa[4]
  • Golden Cat Award, Izmir International Film Festival, Turkey[4]
  • Audience Award, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain[4]

Filmography
Hossein on location in India for the filming of Phoolan
Film Date
Phoolan 2019 Documentary
Women on the Front Line 2013 Documentary
Legacy of Nonviolent Movements in Iran 2011 Documentary
Inscribed 2008 Fiction
The Tale of Two Nazanins 2007 Documentary
The T-shirt 2006 Fiction
The Blind Man 2006 PSA
The Journey 2006 Poem film
A Foreign Poem 2004 Poem film
Who is Sahraa? 2003 Documentary

References
  1. Fazeli, (Naanaam) Hossein (1997). "Exile and Dissonance: The Poetry of Naanaam (Hossein Fazeli)". Iranian Studies. 30 (3–4): 379–383. doi:10.1080/00210869708701887.
  2. "Better remain dead". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
  3. Burgoyne, Robert (1 April 2017). "The dark power of belonging: The T-Shirt". Short Film Studies. 7 (1): 93–96. doi:10.1386/sfs.7.1.93_1. hdl:10023/13054.
  4. "Film Info Educational - Movies that Matter Film Festival". www.moviesthatmatter.nl. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25.
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