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Mina Rad is a documentary filmmaker and producer, who makes films about anthropologists and filmmakers. For Mina Rad, « Making documentary, is a restitution of our cultural heritage, a way of looking at universe and following the path of the cultural identity in the world.”
Mina Rad left Iran at 18 following the Islamic Revolution, studied history and journalism and began her professional life as an international political and cultural journalist reporting for the BBC, RFI and AFP in various Central Asian countries. While traveling the world, for twelve years, she discovered her passion for world music and became Editor-in-Chief of World Music Supplements for the monthly magazine, »Le Monde de la Musique ». After about 10 years of working for various music and cultural festivals, she spent 2011-2014 training in the directing and writing of documentaries at Ateliers Varan. As a documentary filmmaker, she has directed more than ten films. Her first film, « For me the sun never sets, » was awarded the prize for best documentary film at the Verity Festival in Iran in 2012. This film gets the jury mention, « for the warmth and simplicity to narrate a deep story ». In 2017, French TV5 Monde broadcast her film “Jean Rouch Persian look”, on the occasion of the centenary of Jean Rouch , which is about the interest of Jean Rouch about the transe tradition in Iran.
Her most recent films include Persian Tales, Jean Rouch in Iran and The future of the past, Pierre and Yolande Perrault, which are both dedicated to the two directors who greatly influenced her own approach to filmmaking. In 2020, she premiered two films. MR and Mrs Mafi, which is a story of one century of modernisation of Iran through the life of Mr and Mrs Mafi, the founders of the Mehran School, which Mina Rad herself attended as a child. (52 minutes, 2020, WCD production, France).
The second film to premier that year was The Enchanted Words of the Hupd’äh of the Amazon, Masters of knowledge, narrated by Renato Athias.
In 2021, with Renato Athias, brazilian anthropologist, she directed and produced another film about the Amerinidiens in Amazon in north west of Brazil : Sprits, forest and rivers: Memories of worlds from the Hupd’äh of the Amazon.
Hers films have been circulating in anthropology colloque and conferences around the world. Also, she has been working as international consultant for Iranian national school of cinema. Mina Rad has been directing Festival Apresvaran on the steps of Jean Rouch since 2014.
Mina Rad is a documentary filmmaker and producer, who makes films about anthropologists and filmmakers. For Mina Rad, « Making documentary, is a restitution of our cultural heritage, a way of looking at universe and following the path of the cultural identity in the world.”
Mina Rad left Iran at 18 following the Islamic Revolution, studied history and journalism and began her professional life as an international political and cultural journalist reporting for the BBC, RFI and AFP in various Central Asian countries. While traveling the world, for twelve years, she discovered her passion for world music and became Editor-in-Chief of World Music Supplements for the monthly magazine, »Le Monde de la Musique ». After about 10 years of working for various music and cultural festivals, she spent 2011-2014 training in the directing and writing of documentaries at Ateliers Varan. As a documentary filmmaker, she has directed more than ten films. Her first film, « For me the sun never sets, » was awarded the prize for best documentary film at the Verity Festival in Iran in 2012. This film gets the jury mention, « for the warmth and simplicity to narrate a deep story ». In 2017, French TV5 Monde broadcast her film “Jean Rouch Persian look”, on the occasion of the centenary of Jean Rouch , which is about the interest of Jean Rouch about the transe tradition in Iran.
Her most recent films include Persian Tales, Jean Rouch in Iran and The future of the past, Pierre and Yolande Perrault, which are both dedicated to the two directors who greatly influenced her own approach to filmmaking. In 2020, she premiered two films. MR and Mrs Mafi, which is a story of one century of modernisation of Iran through the life of Mr and Mrs Mafi, the founders of the Mehran School, which Mina Rad herself attended as a child. (52 minutes, 2020, WCD production, France).
The second film to premier that year was The Enchanted Words of the Hupd’äh of the Amazon, Masters of knowledge, narrated by Renato Athias.
In 2021, with Renato Athias, brazilian anthropologist, she directed and produced another film about the Amerinidiens in Amazon in north west of Brazil : Sprits, forest and rivers: Memories of worlds from the Hupd’äh of the Amazon.
Hers films have been circulating in anthropology colloque and conferences around the world. Also, she has been working as international consultant for Iranian national school of cinema. Mina Rad has been directing Festival Apresvaran on the steps of Jean Rouch since 2014.
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