Graduates of Iranian Youth Cinema Society became owners of center
Mehdi Azarpandar, CEO of Iranian Youth Cinema Society and secretary of 39th Tehran International Short Film Festival, said at Iranian Youth Cinema Society Alumni Conference: The impact of short cinema is much greater than that of feature length cinema.
According to Artmag.ir, at beginning of this ceremony, Saeed Nejati, advisor to CEO and president of alumni center of Iranian Youth Cinema Society, said: “I am very happy to be here as a filmmaker, and this event is also very gratifying that today there are people present in all businesses.” They have once attended the course of Iranian Youth Cinema Society. Usually, people think that participants of Youth Cinema Society should eventually become filmmakers, but we should know that association gives people a different outlook and view, and importance of association is also in this.
He added: We should have presented a report for this ceremony; From 1985 to 1995, 75 nearly 1400 people were present in Youth Cinema Society, and also in Qom and Dezful offices, 2 members were martyred to record the moments of war in years of holy defense.
Nejati further said: measures are to be taken for identity of members of center, and in first step, I think the membership and cards of these members are more important than anything else, that these cards should have their importance both domestically and internationally, and we also follow its international section, because Iranian Youth Cinema Society is largest filmmaking school in whole world and it is right of members of this school to provide services that are important to people present in this club.
In the end, he stated: This is the first conference, but it will continue, I am happy that this is happening, I hope that this family will be more crowded every day than these years and that the short film family will be together. I must say, the support that the Iranian Youth Cinema Society provides to its members and filmmakers is unparalleled, and I will never forget how much administrators and members of society followed my condition during this period of illness that I was recently involved in. My only happiness is continuity and progress of this center and this community.
Mehdi Azarpandar, CEO of Iranian Youth Cinema Society and secretary of 39th Tehran International Short Film Festival, said: All people who are present in this group are really important people. When it was decided to hold first conference of this center at festival, our view was that this center should be seen better and more correctly, any excuse that makes us gather together is important and our best work in this situation is this. to show our presence more brightly than before; This is work that comes from me as the CEO of Iranian Youth Cinema Society, because this is the duty of society.
After speeches of CEO of Iranian Youth Cinema Society, Habib Ilbeigi, the deputy director of supervision and evaluation of cinema organization, said: “I am happy to be present in this gathering today as a person who is not a student, but as a person who attended Iranian Youth Cinema Society for 2 periods. I would like to congratulate Mehdi Azarpandar for making this happen and I must say how important this center is.
He continued: Many of current problems of Iran, are rooted in fact that there is no such organization and organization at its various levels, and I wish there was an approach and perspective like Iranian Youth Cinema Society in Iran, and this lack causes many weaknesses in Iran. has been If Iranian cinema has a place now, it is due to the existence and establishment of Iranian Youth Cinema Society. All managers who were present in the association in these years, worked to improve and improve the performance of this association; Because we all know that no matter how much investment is made in this field, in the future positive and good result will affect us and we will be cause of progress of Iranian cinema. The impact of short cinema is much greater than that of feature length cinema, and for that reason it is more important.
At the end of this ceremony, cards of 2 members of Iranian Youth Cinema Society alumni association were handed over to their representatives from Dezful and Qom offices by Mehdi Azarpandar, Habib Ilbeigi and Yazdan Ashiri, and then cards of other members of this association, including Saeid Rahimi Foroutan from Arak office Alireza Bakhtian from Najafabad office, Taher Baratchian from Ardabil office, Davood Dadmarzi from Tehran office, Ehsan Namazizadeh from Tehran office, Mohammad Kazem Rezvani from Qom office, Rahber Ghanbari from Karaj office, Javad Tamizkar from Lahijan office, Ahad Karimi from Qom office, Ali Bitarafan from the office of Qom and… was also given to their representatives.
The 39th Tehran International Short Film Festival, under direction of Mehdi Azarpandar, is being held from October 19th to 24th, 2022, at Mellat Cinema Campus.
