Manouchehr Moshiri
- Cinematographer
Manouchehr Moshiri was born in Colappa, Hamedan, to Ismail Moshiri and Roghayyeh Minoobakhsh. Manouchehr spent his younger years in Hamedan and later Tehran the capital city. He graduated from Tehran University as socialist Researcher and later from Iran Governments Television and Radio University in cinema (camera-works). Among his early efforts as director and camera-man were: Qorveh (1979), Our story (1979), Story of Pain (1979), as Director, Camera-man and producer: Farming in Damghan [2 Episodes] (1980), With Earth to Earth (1980), earth-Pain-Germination (1981), as Director, Writer and Camera-man: Mountain Life (1983), Main Shahreqord Mosque (1383), as Director, Camera-man, researcher and writer: Shahreqord Roof of Iran (1984), Where is my Home? (1984), as director, Camera-man and researcher: Seven Days Dating, Two Years Experience [2 Episodes] (1984), Joint work with Rakhshan Bani Etemad: Report 71 (1992), From Spring to Spring (1985), Joint work with Rakhshan Bani Etemad and Pirooz kalantari: Who Do You show This Movies To? (1986), as director, Camera-man, producer and designer: The World is My Home (1986) a biographical movie about well-known Iranian poet Nima Yushij. After Nima Yushij, he continued making biographical movies by: Remember the Dead Candle about great researcher and creator of a famous Persian language Dictionary Dr. Mohammad Moin (1994). Next, he continued with another biographical movie You cannot Imagine the Pain of love I Experienced a bibliography movie about another well-known Iranian researcher and creator of few volumes Persian dictionary Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1995).
After making educational documentary series called: Basics of Debate (1995) as Producer, Director and designer and From Dust (1995) as director, Camera-man and researcher, he continued creating biographical movies with Geography of Love about Abbas Sahab, Father of Iran's geography as director, camera-man and designer (1997) and Language of Silence about Dr. Badrozzaman Qarib (1998) as Director, Camera-man and designer. Next he continued with with Pants kindness about Dr. Ahmad Qahraman (1999). Between Biographical movies, he made another Documentary series [10 Episodes] named Peace with Mathematics. He then returned back to his favorite genre which is Biographical movies with a movie about Dr. Mohammad hassan Ganji named Last Rain of the Year (2000) and A Greater Love about Dr. Bahadori Nejad (2001) as Director. Next he made his 26th movie about Dr. Abdulkarim Qarib named A research on Earth's mysteries (2003). Moshiri then made a movie as writer, director and scene designer about Dr. Parviz Shahriari named Love to Teach (2003) and The Furious Silent about Well-Known Poet Molana (Roami). His next biographical movie as director and writer was about Dr. Kamaluddin Jinab (2004) and another about Dr. Abolqasem Siah Qalam named Nostalgic as Bud (2004). He create an industrial documentary about Khuzestan's Alloy Steel (2005) before his next biographical movie Love is Most Valuable about Dr. Seyyed Jaffar Shahidi (2006). His other movie about Dr. Shahidi was: ... and i am the diver, Sea Tavern (2007).
Moshiri Continued his active Film making life with his 34th Movie called: and i Left my Youth back in Inqilab (Revolution) Street (2007). Next he worked on another biographical movie about Mohammad Ali Amir Jahid named Thousand stories of Amir Jahid (2008). Love and Pen is his 37th documentary about Professor Fazlollah Reza (2005-2008) and another Biographical movie on Dr. Mohammad hassan ganji named Hundred Years (2011) as Director, Researcher, Producer and Designer. Beside his Films and Biographical movies, Moshiri founded the first Iranian Workshop on Documentary with help of Iran's Association of Documentary Directors, which held by participating young documentary makers from all around the country in Tehran. Few Iranian well-known Documentary movie makers, have been studied in this institute, like: Mohammad Baqeri, Loqman Khaliqi and Mahmoud Rahmani.