Lady Midnight

جشنواره سینمایی فجر امسال پرحادثه بود. از حذف فیلم مهرجویی با نام “علی سنتوری” و بازگشت مجددش به لیست نمایش تا نارضایتی دست‌اندرکاران سینما از نحوه تقسیم سیمرغ‌ها و حضور مسعود ده‌نمکی به عنوان کارگردان و سخنرانی جنجالی او در اختتامیه که گفت “من نه مرغ می‌خواهم و نه سیمرغ”.

اما از نکات مثبت و قابل تأمل امسال بازگشت بخش عکاسی فیلم پس از ۸ سال بود. در این بخش که خود زیرمجموعه بخش مواد تبلیغاتی و اطلاع‌رسانی بود٬ ۱۲ فیلم حضور داشتند که هیات داوران ۵ عکاس فیلم را نامزد سیمرغ بلورین اعلام کردند

بابک برزویه برای فیلم “حکم”٬ غوغا بیات برای فیلم “یک تکه نان”٬ علی زارع بزای فیلم “وقتی همه خواب بودند”٬ عبدالله عبدی‌نسب برای فیلم “گرگ و میش” و مقداد شمس الواعظین برای فیلم “تقاطع”.

سرانجام روز یکشنبه ۱۵ بهمن ۱۳۸۵ سیمرغ بلورین جشنواره فجر در بخش عکاسی فیلم در دستان علی زارع هنرمند جوان و با آتیه آرام گرفت.

وی که ۲۶ سال دارد سال ۸۳ جایزه بهترین عکاس تئاتر فجر را نیز از آن خود کرده است.

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روز 2 فوریه 2007 نمایشگاه آثار برگذیده دهمین مسابقه عکس بشر دوستانه در شهر لندن افتتاح شد. این نمایش تا روز 25 آپریل ادامه خواهد داشت.

همچنین نمایش مذکور در شهر مادرید”اسپانیا” در روز 23 ژانویه افتتاح شد و تا روز 4 فوریه برای بازدید علاقه مندان دایر بود.

تعداد شرکت کنندگان در این مسابقه 338 عکاس از 46 کشور و مجموع 972 عکس بوده که در این میان هیات داوران 13 عکاس را برای دریافت جایزه کاندید کرده و 14 عکاس دیگر را نیز برگزیده تا در این نمایش آثار 27 عکاس از سراسر دنیا به نمایش گذاشته شود

اما خبربهتر این است که اسم من جزو کاندیدهای جایزه بود. البته جایزه به شخص دیگری رسید ولی به هر حال همین هم خوب بود.

آهای اهالی انگلستان و دوستان مقیم لندن اگر سری به گالری عکس ها زدید یک عکس از فضای داخل برای من بفرستید. ممنونم

Médecins du Monde UK will be touring an exhibition of The 10^th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award around the UK in 2007.

This Photography Award was established as a tribute to four humanitarian workers who were murdered in the field: Flors Sirera, Luis Valtueña and Manuel Madrazo in Rwanda and Mercedes Navarro in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Luis Valtueña was a photographer by profession, which is why the Award bears his name.

Each year, this Award invites amateur and professional photographers around the world to capture the essence of humanitarian and solidarity values and actions in scenes that they have witnessed first-hand during the previous 12 months.

As well as 27 photographs in this exhibition, there will be an additional 16-photograph retrospective exhibition, showing winning images from the last decade during which the Award has been held every year.

FIRST EXHIBITION (free)

Dates: Friday 2 February to Wednesday 28 March 2007

Venue: The Institut Français d’Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 7TT

Opening times: Monday-Friday 9.30am to 6.30pm; Saturday 9.30am to 2pm (closed Sunday)

For further information: call (0131) 225 5366 for or visit www.ifecosse.org.uk

SECOND EXHIBITION (free)

Dates: Monday 2 April to Wednesday 25 April 2007

Venue: The Gallery, Hooked on Books, 4 Holyrood Street, Chard, Somerset TA20 2AH

Opening times: Monday – Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm (closed Sunday)

For further information: call (01460) 61010 or (01460) 67925

THIRD EXHIBITION

To be confirmed

Dear friend
We are writing to inform you that the pictures you submitted to the 10th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award have been short-listed to be part of an exhibition that will be touring Spain and other European countries during the next two years.

The photographs short-listed for this years’ exhibition are:
‘Libanon – Israel Conflict I, II, III’, Davide Monteleone.
‘The anatomy of a global nightmare III’, Miki Alcalde.
‘Sur Sudan: la lucha contra la enfermedad del sueño II, III’, Miguel Cuenca.
‘Hijab – Islamic female clothe I’, Pooyan Tabatabaei.
‘The serbs of Croatia II’, Ivor Prikett.
‘Refugiadas en la ceniza II’, Borja Alegría.
‘Pies de una pequeña explotada’, Seila Montes García.
‘Barrios de barracas: de la marginalidad a la extrema miseria I’, Enric Vives-Rubio.
‘Overpopulation in Manilla, The Philippines I, II’, Mad Nissen.
‘The bride´s price I, II, III’, Giovanni Marrozzini .
‘Lebanon’, Farah Nosh.
‘Salida de clase en Gihembe, campo de refugiados Congoleses en Rwanda II’, Sergi Cámara.
‘The team of Hope II’, Olivier Asselin.

The Awards Ceremony will take place in Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia 2, 28012 Madrid, on the 24th of January
2007, at 19:30 p.m., where we will open the exhibition of the winner and short-listed pictures. We hope you can attend the ceremony.The exhibition will be displayed in the Casa Encendida from the 24th of January to the 03th of February 2007. After this, the exhibition will be touring Spain and other European countries for at least two years.
Yours sincerely,
María Cebrián
Departamento de Movilización Social

Statements of support presented at the press conference by prominent individuals or in the name of organizations would be much appreciated.

More information provided below.

Thank you in advance

Iranian-Armenian Director to be deported to Iran in new Year

Press Conference

Friday December 22, 2006

1pm @ mini park on King St. behind Roy Thomson Hall across the street from Royal Alexander Theatre (near St. Andrew Subway Station)

TORONTO —Levon Haftvan, an Iranian Armenian Christian will not be enjoying Christmas this year. He has been ordered to appear for deportation on January 11, 2007 to Iran, an Islamic fundamentalist country that has a poor record on human rights and democracy. Haftvan, a theatre director who’s most recent play Hello Out There was staged this month, will be fighting to stay in Canada his home for over ten years.

As an ethnic and religious minority, he fears persecution if he is returned to Iran which is headed by Islamic hardliner, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has a proven track record of religious intolerance and attacks on freedom of expression.

Haftvan fled Iran in 1991 after being detained, interrogated and tortured by the Iranian authorities and security forces because of:
1)      his support of the Armenian nationalist and leftist cause;
2)      the publication of his poetry in the Armenian language;
3)      his support for the importation and distribution of Armenian language books and publications.

Not only does his background put him at risk, but also his work as an artist will also place him in potential danger. Haftvan has 25 years experience as a theatre director. Many of his plays involve themes of eroticism, sensuality and sexuality.  According to a statement issued by Amnesty International:

“should Mr. Haftvan be forcibly returned to Iran he is at risk of detention, ill treatment and torture due to the nature of the plays that he has directed in Canada and political opinion expressed therein. Should he be detained, Amnesty International would consider Mr. Haftvan a prisoner of conscience as he would be detained for the non-violent exercise of his right to freedom of expression.”

Haftvan and his supporters will be holding a press conference in must specify location, the theatre district on Friday, December 22, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. to call on the government to stay his deportation.

Sima Sahar Zerehi

Shahrvand Publications