- Sarvnaz Alambeigi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist best known for documentary filmmaking and painting. She graduated from Graphic Art School and studied painting at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. Her films have been screened in various international film festivals, cinemas, broadcasts, and museums around the world. She started her art profession with her debut painting exhibition in 2000. She received film training from 2013 to 2018 at Documentary Campus Masterschool and Danish Film School. In 2013, she founded her own film 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. Alambeigi's most notable work is '1001 Nights Apart', a documentary released in 2022 in Germany that won the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at DOK.fest Munich. The film depicts Iran's pre- and post-Islamic revolution era. The film focuses on Iranian ballet dancers of the past and the present underground dancers in two periods of time divided by the Islamic revolution of 1979. 1001 Nights Apart was shown in cinemas across Germany in 2022. In 2021, Alambeigi was awarded the prize for best pitch at the Sunny Side Of The Doc Global Pitch. She was later selected as a jury member for the 2022 season of prizes. In October 2021, the project for her upcoming film 'Broken Flower' won Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at the 64th edition of DOK Leipzig. Another notable film in her career is 'Cypher And Lion', released in June 2017 at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Its plot depicts the fall of sculpture culture in Iran after its Islamization in the 7th century AD and Parviz Tanavoli, the father of modern Iranian sculpture, reviving it after centuries.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sarvnaz Alambeigi
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