Cinematic Lessons From ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Mahmoud Reza Sani is an award winning film maker and a writer, producer, director and actor who has made several short films, documentaries, features and television serials. In 2000 he founded Arvandan Film Production which specializes in low budget, high caliber documentaries and films often shot under difficult conditions. 
Mahmoud is also considered the ’ambassador’ of Cine Pobre, an universal movement created by the esteemed Cuban film maker Humberto Solas. It is an active network of international cooperation that promotes Cine Pobre (poor cinema) production by making high quality low budget independent films. 
His debut film, Siyamo, a poetic song of peace that tells the search for his beloved in the devastation of a post-Taliban Afghanistan won, the Cesare Zavattini grand prize at the First International Cine Pobre Festival in Gibara, Cuba in 2002. In April 2006, his film Wild Goose, which depicts the folly of war through two opposing characters, received the special Poverty Zero award from the NGO OIKOS, the sponsor of the film festival. In 2010 Mahmoud served on the jury for the film festival. 
Mahmoud holds various workshops throughout the globe to impart his knowledge and experience to those with the desire to learn and a story to tell.