Draft:Ali Shahmohammadi

Ali Shahmohammadi is an Iranian awarded filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, supervisor and teacher of screenwriting , film co-production facilitator, film editor and photographer.

Career
He first studied in “Repair and maintenance of airplane” engineering. In the same years, he completed a one-year filmmaking course at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and made his first short film as a graduation project in 2000.

In the first years of filmmaking, he had made his films by the income he earned from the airplane engineering field and was making many short fiction and documentary films.

Simultaneously with filmmaking, he also studied in "English Language Teaching" and received a bachelor's degree in this field. Then he studied in Dramatic Literature and received a master's degree in it from the Faculty of Art and Architecture (Tehran).

After that, he resigned from airplane engineering job and went to Europe to continue his education and received a master's degree in documentary film directing from DOCNOMADS, which is a Joint Master between Belgium, Portugal and Hungary, supported by the European Union.

He is also a film editor who edited several fiction films and documentary series and photographer with some photo exhibitions

Ali Shahmohammadi also has written two books: "Two weeks, ten steps to start screenwriting" and "Reading Takhti " which is a monologue for theater about Gholamreza Takhti, Olympic champion and hero of the Iranian people.

Filmography
1- Trinity: Mother, me and home (Feature documentary) - 2024

2- Gabriella (Feature documentary – editing phase) - 2023

3- Let’s talk about it (Documentary  – 28 min) - 2020

4- The man (Feature documentary - 107  min) - 2021

5- Legrand  (Documentary – 16 min) - 2018

6- Ali’s Gholamreza (Documentary – 52 min) - 2011

7- Head wind (Fiction – 10 min) - 2009

8- Ten, one, Sixty one (Documentary – 46 min) - 2008

9- Tehran a quite snowy day (Documentary – 52 min) - 2007

10- Children of Paradise(Documentary – 52 min) - 2005

11- It’s happened in one day (Documentary – 47 min) - 2004

12- The day which rocks the world (Documentary – 13 min) - 2003

13- Where of this dark night (Fiction – 10 min) - 2000

14- Where the pavements end… Fiction – 9 min) - 2000

Awards, honors and competition entries

Gold Remi Award: Best Independent Documentary for "It's Happened in One Day" from Houston International Film Festival- 2010

Silver Remi Award: Best experimental film for "Head wind" from the Houston International Film Festival - 2010

Silver Remi Award: Best independent documentary film for "Tehran, a quite snowy day" from Houston International Film Festival - 2010

Silver Remi Award: Best social documentary film for "Children of the Paradise" from Houston International Film Festival - 2009

Golden trophy: Best research for “The Knight” from Iran Sports Film Festival - 2021

Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Urban Film Festival by “The Knight” - 2022

Participation: Competition section - TV documentary Film Festival - “The Knight”- 2021

Participation: Competition section – Jordan Karama International Film - "Legrand" - 2019

Participation: Competition section – Sport Movies & TV Milan International FICTS Festival - "The Knight" - 2019

Public screening: "The Knight" in Art and Experience Cinemas - 2018

Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Short Film Festival - "Legrand" - 2017

Participation: Competition section – Cinema Verite International Film Festival - "The Knight" - 2017

Participation: Competition section - Cinema Verite International Film Festival  - "Ten, One, Sixty One" - 2011

Participation: Competition section: Tehran International Urban Film Festival - "Children of the Paradise" - 2007

Participation: Competition section - Tehran International Urban Film Festival "Head Wind" and "Tehran, a quite snowy day" - 2008