Reza Dormishian () is an Iranian

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and film producer. He has worked as assistant director with notable directors such as

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, and Alireza Davood Nejad.

Career

He started writing as a film critic in 1997 for several newspapers. He later worked as an executive editor for cinema books and magazines. He was an assistant to some prestigious Iranian filmmakers, including

and Alireza Davood Nejad. He has also worked as a screenwriter. He started making short films and documentaries in 2002. ''Hatred'' was his first feature film, produced independently in

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. ''Hatred'' displays the frenzied love and hatred and two accounts from two phases in the life of an Iranian refugee couple in

, Turkey. The film was received well by critics and cinema writers and the Iranian critics gave it three awards (Best Directing, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing). Although ''Hatred'' was censored to be screened in

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, it was screened and praised in various festivals such as the Competition Section of the 36th

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in Poland, and Competition Section of the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland. His second feature, ''I'm not angry!'', was the most controversial film of the Iranian cinema in 2014. This social drama criticizes the

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era, and it was the only Iranian film present in the Panorama Section of 64th

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. ''I'm not angry!'' was screened in the 32nd

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while 15 minutes of it had been censored, and it was faced with warm welcome by the audience and grave opposition by extremist groups, to the extent that the cinema authorities stopped its screening. As the hardliners and extremists were going to attack the closing ceremony of the festival with 15 buses of their men, the festival authorities forced Reza Dormishian not to receive his awards and to withdraw his film from the festival, and they announced in the closing ceremony that Reza Dormishian had waived his awards to maintain calmness in the Iranian cinema. The jury members, however, revealed the next day that the awards had indeed belonged to ''I'm not angry!'' and that Dormishian had agreed to resignation under pressure. Screening of ''I'm not angry!'' in

has been banned since then.

Filmography

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dormishian, Reza 1981 births Living people Iranian film directors Iranian screenwriters Iranian film producers Film people from Tehran