Description

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kamran Shirdel
(born 1939 in Tehran) is a renowned Iranian documentarist. He studied
architecture and urbanism at the University of Rome and film direction
at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome, graduating in
1964. He worked as an assistant director with John Huston on The Bible
before making his diploma film, Gli Specchi (The Mirrors), in Rome. He
returned to Iran and started his career in 1965. Shirdel is the founder
and director of the Kish International Documentary Film Festival which
is held yearly in the January in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf.