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Director, DFF, SM Khan greeting film director
Ms Niki Karimi of Iran at the presentation of
film A Few Days Later, during the 39th
International Film Festival in Panaji, Goa
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Panaji: IFFI
Goa is paying a special tribute to its jury member
Niki Karimi, the noted actress, film maker and writer
from Iran. The tribute section opens with the screening
of ‘A Few Days Later’ – a 2006 movie tracing the emotional
panic of Shahrzad, famous graphic designer living
in Tehran. Karimi has directed as well as played the
leading character in the movie. The movie ‘3Women’
– a 2008 movie directed by Manijeh Hekmat other prolific
figure in Iranian cinema, stars Niki Karimi in a key
role.
Born on November 10, 1971, Niki Karimi is Iran's internationally-hailed
actress, filmmaker, writer who lives between London
and Tehran. Her talent as an actress was noticed by
the famous Iranian actor Jamshid Gorgin, while she
was playing a role in a school play. She loves translating
and in 1999 she released her first translation work,
Marlon Brando's biography Songs My Mother Taught Me
to Persian. Niki has won several awards both at home
and internationally, and recently been in the jury
for such festivals as the Locarno International Film
Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival,
Berlin film festival and also the 60th Cannes Film
Festival. In 2001, with Abbas Kiarostami as the producer
she directed To Have or Not to Have, a documentary
about infertility. Her efforts won her first award
as a director in "The Rain" festival in Iran. She
has starred in over 20 movies in Iran and directed
two features till now. Niki has won the best actress
awards at the Fajr film Festival for One Flew Over
Cuckoo's Nest in 2002, at Cairo film festival for
Hidden Half in 2001, at Taormina film festival for
Two women in 1999, at San Sebastian film festival
and Nantes Film Festival for Sara in 1995. Her first
feature as a director, One Night, was part of the
Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Film
Producer Victor Dobrostsky and actress Olga
Kabola (L) of the film Longing for the Future
at the International Film Festival, Panaj
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IFFI Goa is also paying special tribute to Peter Ho-sun
Chan whose ‘Warlords’ was the opening film of IFFI
Goa 2008. The other film of the Hong Kong director
in the section is ‘Perhaps Love’. Peter Ho-Sun Chan
co-founded the United Filmmakers Organization (UFO)
in Hong Kong in the early 1990s, and produced a solid
track record of box office and critical hits. Chan
has made an indelible mark on both sides of the Pacific
with his Hong Kong comedy-dramas Alan and Eric: Between
Hello and Goodbye; Tom, Dick & Harry and He's a Women,
She's a Man. His commercially and critically acclaimed
Comrades: Almost a Love Story was named one of the
Ten Best Movies of 1997 by Time Magazine and swept
a record-breaking nine Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1998,
he was voted one of the Top Ten Helmers to watch by
Variety. Chan also directed the romantic comedy The
Love Letter for Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks SKG
in 1999. Chan furthered his vision for international
collaborations by establishing his own company, Applause
Pictures Ltd, in year 2000. The films produced include:
Jan Dara (Thailand-Hong Kong), One Fine Spring Day
(Japan-Korea-Hong Kong), The Eye (Singapore-Thailand-Hong
Kong), Three (Thailand-Korea-Hong Kong), Golden Chicken
and its sequel Golden Chicken 2, The Eye 2 (Thailand-Singapore-Hong
Kong), Three…Extremes (Japan-Korea-Hong Kong), The
Eye Infinity and McDull, The Alumni (Hong Kong-China).
In 2005, Chan widened his range by embarking on Hong
Kong-China co-productions.
Perhaps Love, his first collaboration with film professionals
on the Mainland, became one of the best-selling Chinese
films in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan that year, picking
up 29 honors at nine awards ceremonies. It was also
selected as Hong Kong's entry to the 78th Annual Academy
Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
In 2007, Chan produced Derek Yee's Protégé and directed
The Warlords. The two films took the top two spots
as the highest grossing co-productions of the year
both in Hong Kong and China.
-PIB
-Nov 25, 2008
