Arash T. Riahi
Arash T. Riahi ( born August 22, 1972 in Iran) is an Austrian film director of Iranian origin.
Life and work
Arash Riahi came in 1982 by the flight of his parents from Iran to Austria. Since his father was persecuted as a left intellectual Shah's opponents, Riahi no longer attended the recent years in Iran to school - instead, he often went with his father to the movies. " Maybe that stirred my enthusiasm for the film. " While still at school, he made his first short film experiments. In 1993 he graduated from the Matura at BRG 1 Schottenbastei Gymnasium in Vienna and studied film and Humanities thereafter. From 1995 to 2002 he was a freelancer ORF and focused on documentaries, music videos and commercials. As a video artist and experimental filmmaker, as he was active at this time for the show art pieces, he called himself ARASH.
In 1998 he founded together with Geza Horvat, Kristian Davidek and Raphael Barth the film and media production company " Golden Girls Filmproduktion ". In addition to short films, commercials and music videos previously produced numerous television documentaries and three documentary movies. Among Exile Family Movie where Riahi his politically and geographically scattered extended family portraits. Arash T. Riahi's debut film A Moment Freedom was honored in 2008 among others, the Vienna Film Prize.
Filmography
Awards
Mississippi:
- Visual Pleasure Award / Festival Animateka / Ljubljana 2005
- Award for best script / Idea Film Festival Fantoche / Switzerland 2005
- Best Experimental Film Melbourne Film Festival 2006
- Most Surprising Movie Odense Film Festival 2006
- Grand Prize Experimental Film Festival Videoex 2006/Schweiz
- Prize 16th International Video Festival of Bochum 2006
- Golden Dove for Best Animated Feature Film Festival Leipzig 2005
Exile Family Movie:
- Golden Dove for Best Documentary at the Film Festival Leipzig 2006
- FIPRESCI Prize of the International Film Critics Association, Leipzig Film Festival 2006
- Large diagonal Award for Best Documentary in 2006
- 2nd best midlength Ecofilms documentary film festival Rhodes 2006
- Silver Hugo for best documentary Chicago Film Festival 2006
- Max Ophüls Prize 2007 ( Documentary Award )
- Inter Film Prize of the Max Ophüls Festival 2007
A moment of freedom:
- The film received 12 awards so far, including: Flying Ox, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg- Vorpommern 2009
- Golden Zenith for the best feature film debut, Montreal World Film Festival 2008
- Vienna Film Prize, Viennale 2008
- Honorable mention, Carl Mayer screenplay competition in 2003 for the feature film screenplay
More Awards:
- Prize for Innovative Cinema diagonal 2001 Media work by the Association ECHO for documentation Young people from Kardinal Nagl Platz
- Golden Venus for best TV commercial in 2001 for the commercial submarine Meaning of Life
- Silver Venus in the category best Austrian Cinema 2002 Alphaville for the commercial Videostore
- Silver Plaque Award for Best Documentary at the Chicago Film Festival in 2004 for The Souvenirs of Mr. X
- NDR Director Award, Film Arts Festival Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in 2009, donated by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk