Hadi Afarideh

Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984, Hadi Afarideh started his art career in theater in 1998 and in cinema in 2001 at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society. He was chosen the best documentary filmmaker in the first specialized workshops of documentary filmmaking in Iran by the Documentary and Experimental Film Center and the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association in 2006. Hadi Afarideh has participated in more than 140 Iranian and international festivals and won various awards for the directing, writing, and research of his three short films Orange, Whistle, Father, and 19 documentaries Baghchehban Children, Under Pine Trees, Ceremony at Dawn, Gordafarid Story, Memory of Nei Avaran, Pale Childhood, Nozood, Veteran Rider, Nowruz Melody, Soorat Khani, Plain Grove, Offer, Nowruz Tehran Time, Lost Orchards, Paradises of Imagination, In Tehran Style, Ofus, Oblivion Migration and Iranian Pet Club. At present, he teaches cinema directing and holds documentary filmmaking classes in the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and the Iranian Contemporary Arts Academy, and organizes documentary filmmaking workshops. At present, he is a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA).