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Farsi
Born in
Babol in 1947, Ebrahim Mokhtari is a graduate of
filmmaking from Tehran’s College of Film & Television and Universite de Paris-VIII 1980 in
Etudes Cinematographiques et Audio-visuelles. He
started his career at the Iranian television as
assistant director of series. He began making
documentaries for the Iranian TV stations and
established himself as one of the prominent
documentary filmmakers in the country. He
made his first feature film, Zinat, in 1994, which
was successfully shown at the Critics Week Section
of Cannes 1994. Leipzig Film Festival held a tribute
to Ebrahim Mokhtari in 1997 and Rural Art &
Literature Festival of Tehran presented him with a
Special Prize for his film career in 1999. He is the
founder and was one of the members of the founding
board of Iranian Documentary Filmmaker's Association
in 1998.
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