Kamran Shirdel

Biography

Kamran Shirdel (Persian: کامران شیردل‎‎; born 1939 in Tehran) is an Iranian documentarist. He studied architecture and urbanism at the University of Rome and film direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome, graduating in 1964. He worked as an assistant director with John Huston on The Bible before making his diploma film, Gli Specchi (The Mirrors), in Rome. He returned to Iran and started his career in 1965. Shirdel is the founder and director of the Kish International Documentary Film Festival which is held yearly in the January in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. He is also the managing director of Filmgrafic Co. Kamran Shirdel was appointed as IL CAVALIERE Della Republica Italiana and received the Medals of LA STELLA DELLA SOLIDARIETA' ITALIANA in a ceremony held in Farmanieh Palace in Tehran on May 2010.

Directed

1. The Night It Rained (1967) — Director
2. Women's Quarter (1966) — Director
3. Tehran Is the Capital of Iran (1966) — Director
4. The Shoga (Glass and Gas) Company (1990) — Director
5. Women's Prison (1965) — Director
6. The Morning of the Fourth Day (1973) — Director
7. Solitude Opus 1 (2002) — Director
8. Wagon Pars (1987) — Director
9. A Look at Bonyad-e Mostazafan Industries (1989) — Director
10. Paykan (1969) — Director
11. The Mirrors (1964) — Director
12. Silver Canvas (1965) — Director
13. Pearls of the Persian Gulf: Dubai 1975 (1975) — Director
14. Gas, Fire, Wind (1986) — Director
15. Genaveh Project (1988) — Director
16. Mobarakeh Steel Complex (1997) — Director
17. Cradle of Sun (2001) — Director