Sarvnaz Alambeigi

Sarvnaz Alambeigi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian documentary film director, film producer, painter, and poet. Her most notable works are 1001 Nights Apart and Maydegol.

Life and career
Sarvnaz Alambeigi was born in the city of Tehran. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. She started her artistic career in 2000 with her first painting exhibition. She received film training from 2013 to 2018 in international educational institutions such as Documentary Campus Master-school and Danish Film School. In 2013, she founded her own film production company, Rabison Art. She is currently a member of Film Fatales, the European Women's Audiovisual Network, and the Association of Iranian Documentary Cinema Directors.

Her most notable work is 1001 Nights Apart, which was released in Germany in 2022 and won the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at the Munich International Documentary Film Festival in May 2022, a documentary film about Iran's pre- and post-Islamic revolution era, focusing on ballet dancers and underground dancers in Iran in two periods, before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In 2021, Alambeigi won the Sunny Side of the Doc award for her global issues pitch and was later selected as a jury member for the 2022 awards season. her film project with the working title (Broken Flower) won the Saxon Award for Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at the 64th edition of DOK Leipzig. The same film premiered at the Berlinale in February 2024 under the title Maydegol and received the Special Mention Generation 14plus from the International Jury.[9]

In June 2017, her short film Cypher And Lion (Noghteh Va Shir) was released at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after the opening ceremony for the "The Lions of Iran" exhibit by Tanavoli in 2017. The plot depicts the decline of Iran's sculptural culture and its revival after centuries by Parviz Tanavoli, the father of modern Iranian sculpture.

Publication(s)

 * There Between Two Worlds, her first novella, was published by Ettefagh Publications in 2020.
 * Stork and Snow, her poetry book, was published by Nazar Publishing in 2023.

Artwork

 * The diary, a solo artwork exhibited in October 2021 at Etemad 1 Gallery, Tehran.
 * Conversation, a performance and a solo artwork exhibited in October 2015 at Shirin Gallery, Tehran.