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Make-Up Artist Dies
Veteran make-up designer Farhang Moayyeri died at the age of 65 on Saturday after a prolonged battle with lung cancer.
According to ISNA, Moayyeri began his cinematic activities from 1978. Some of his famous works include ’Lady’, ’Red Line’, ’Tangestan Gallants’, ’Relation’ and ’Dog Killing’.
Mohsen Maleki, head of the Iranian Association of Make-Up Designers, expressed his condolences over Moayyeri’s death and described him as the father of Iranian make-up designing.
Moayyeri was honored by the association in 2006.
’Invitation’ Awaits Screening Permit
A copy of the film ’Invitation’, which is the latest work by noted Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia, has been submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for screening permit following the completion of dubbing, editing and soundtrack recording.
The film portrays how several families deal with a same problem differently. The cast includes Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Mahnaz Afshar, Katayoun Riahi and Merila Zarei.
Announcing this, the film’s producer Mohammad Pirhadi told ISNA that the two are waiting to get the go-ahead from the ministry for another project called ’Phoenix’.
“Hopefully, the film will be ready for the upcoming Fajr International Film Festival next February,“ he said.
Meanwhile, Hatamikia once again called on cultural officials to show tolerance toward his political love story ’In the Color of Purple’.
The film was withdrawn from the schedule of the 23rd Fajr International Film Festival 2005 following objections by Intelligence Ministry.
’End of the Sky’ in France
The play ’Where is the End of the Sky’, written by Naqmeh Samini and directed by Ali Razi, is being performed at the Saint Germaine Theater Festival which opened on Saturday in France.
Razi, who is residing in France, told ISNA that he selected the cast from among Iranian, French and Japanese artists.
He added that the performance will be also staged at the Iranian Spring Festival currently underway in the French capital. The festival, being held in 12 cultural centers in Paris, will run until June 20.
The director added that he has been invited by Paris municipality to hold three educational workshops on the sidelines of the event.
Razi staged the Irano-French performance ’Horses of Grey Sky Rain’ at City Theater’s Chaharsou Hall two years ago.
’W’ Set for October Release
Director Oliver Stone has landed a distribution deal with independent studio Lionsgate to get an upcoming film about President George W. Bush into US theaters in October, shortly before the presidential election.
The political biography, to be called ’W’ and featuring ’No Country for Old Men’ star Josh Brolin as Bush, is slated to begin shooting in Louisiana on Monday (May 12), Reuters reported.
The director, who has been one of Bush’s most virulent critics, calling him ’the wrong leader at the wrong time’ in 2005, says his biopic will be ’a fair, true portrait of the man’ and will ’contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors’.
Stone says that the movie will focus on certain key events of the president’s life. “How did Bush go from an alcoholic man to the most powerful figure in the world?“ asked Stone.
“It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq,“ Stone said.
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