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Seyed-Ebrahim
Asgharzadeh was born in Mashad in 1968 and studied film
editing in the Art University and achieved license degree.
He initially acted in Mohajer (Ebrahim Hatamikia), and then
cooperated in most of his films as script supervisor, and
assistant director, - among them, Union of Blessed, From
Karkheh to Rhine, Green Ashes (all of them as script
supervisor), The Scent of Yoosef Shirt (assistant director),
Minoo Tower, Red Ribbon (both as assistant director), The
Dead Wave (executive-producer). Meanwhile, he was assistant
director for A Book of Heavens (Parviz Sheikhtari), and Iron
Bird ( Ali Shahatami).
In 1998, he made two documentaries, The Chronicle of an
Unfinished Script and The Long Silence, for the I.Y.C.S. in
France.The Chronicle of an Unfinished Script is the story of Hatamikia's journey to Paris. Hatamikia didn't succeed to
find his favorite theme, but Asgharzadeh came back with a
45-min. documentary. This is a film about Iranian youth
living in Paris.The Long Silence was made during the World Football
Championship. In his journey to France, Asgharzadeh meets Babak, a young Iranian living in France who has been abroad
for many years and now finds new ties with his homeland
during the Championship and realizes his roots.This documentary won the special award of the 16th National
Film Festival and the 4th International Film Festival of the
Youth Short Films (1999).
In winter of 1998, Asgharzadeh made the documentary series,
The Oil Journey, about the perilous route of Iranian oil
from petroleum terminals to other parts of the world.
Hatamikia was the director of photography of this film.
Last year, his another documentary, The Eternal Impressions,
about chemical weapons victims, was awarded as the best TV
war documentary in Holy Defense Film Festival. Among his other documentaries is The Identification, for the
Revayat-e-Fath Cultural Institute, which is the story of the
only remaining member of a group of Special Forces in 1980,
who has been injured by chemical weapon and is now in a
hospital.In autumn 2001, with the beginning of war in Afghanistan, he
made the documentary Harooleh. His last work was a TV movie
named The Unanswered Letters about martyrs' mothers. On his
flight to Khoramabad for completing the film's sound, his
plane crashed.
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