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Granaz Moussavi was born on 1976-12- in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian-Australian poet and filmmaker. Discover Granaz Moussavi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1976-12-
Birthday 1976-12-
Birthplace Tehran, Iran
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Granaz Moussavi (Persian : گراناز موسوی ) is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet, film director and screenwriter.

1989

Her first poems were published in 1989, and since then, she has continued writing and publishing poetry in various magazines and collections in Iran and other countries.

1990

She is known for her avant-garde poetry in the 1990s.

1996

Granaz published her first book, Khatkhati Rooye Shab خط خطی روی شب (Sketching On Night), underground in Tehran in 1996, to an extensive reception.

1997

In 1997, Granaz emigrated to Australia with her family, where she changed her focus from acting to screen studies and filmmaking.

2000

In the field of poetry, she has conducted many poetry readings worldwide, including her participation in the Paris Autumn Festival in 2000 (introduced and translated by Media Kashigar, managed by Alain Lance), SOAS/London University in 2001, Vienna and Mondorf/Luxembourg in 2003, Saint Nazaire, Nantes, Marseille, Arles/France in 2004–5, Sydney/Australia in 2005, “Caravan of poetry” through Paris, La Rochelle, Marseille, Poitier, and Nantes/France in 2006, the Fifth International Festival of Poetry “Merci Poesie”, Göteborg/Sweden in 2008, the Iranian Arts and Literature Festival, San Francisco/USA in 2009, and Luxemburg in 2009.

2001

Her second book, Paberahneh Ta Sobh پابرهنه تا صبح (Barefoot Till Morning), was the winner of جایزه شعر کارنامه یاجایزه شعر امروز ایران Karnameh’s best poetry book of the year award in 2001 and went to at least a fourth edition.

2002

In 2002, she made her honors film A Short Film About Colour, shot by the renowned Iranian cinematographer Firooz Malekzadeh.

The short film earned Granaz the best director award from Flinders University in Adelaide, and an honorary membership to the Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collecting Society (ASDAS).

At the age of 17, Granaz started writing professionally as a book reviewer and literary critic at "Donyaye Sokhan literary magazine (مجلهٔ ادبی دنیای سخن") in Tehran.

2003

She published her third collection, Avazhaye Zan e Biejazeh آوازهای زن بی اجازه (The Songs of the Forbidden Woman), in 2003.

A second edition was published.

Her poems have been anthologized worldwide and her solo bi-lingual collection was published in France by MEET publishers.

Granaz published Les Rescapes De La Patience (translated by Farideh Rava and with a preface by Jean Baptiste Para) after a sponsored literary residency in Saint Nazaire, France.

2004

In 2004 a DEA thesis at Sorbonne University (Paris III) on her poetry was lodged by Etienne Forget.

After receiving an Honours degree from Flinders University, Granaz got accepted into AFTRS, the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School in Sydney.

2006

She graduated with a postgraduate degree in film editing in 2006.

She was a doctoral candidate with a scholarship at the University of Western Sydney researching "The Aesthetics of Poetic Cinema".

She has made several short films and documentaries and has participated in various roles in a few feature films.

In 2006, being shortlisted in local, statewide, and across-the-country competitions, she won the Holding Redlich prize for her script "pitch" at the Screen Producers Association of Australia.

2007

Her prize was a sponsorship for her trip to Cannes Film Festival in 2007 to present her project idea in the film market.

2009

Her debut feature film My Tehran for Sale (2009) is an internationally-acclaimed Australian-Iranian co-production.

She gave a lecture followed by a poetry reading at Stanford University in February 2009 and University of California at Irvine in January 2011.

Much has been written about Granaz's poetry, including by some renowned Iranian writers and critics such as M. Azad, Jalil Doustkhah, Mohammad Rahim Okhovat, Shahrnoush Parsipour, and Ali Babachahi.

Her poetry has been translated and published in French, English, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Kurdish.

Her first feature film My Tehran for Sale (tehran-e-man, haraj تهران من، حراج ), a 2009 production, was shot in July/Aug 2008 in Tehran.

The film, written and directed by Granaz, is the first feature collaboration of Iran and Australia.

It premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival, and was an official selection of Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009, Vancouver International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival (October 2009) and International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (November 2009), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (January 2010), International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 2010), International Film Festival Prague - Febiofest, 2010 Cinema Novo Film Festival Brugges, 2010 CPH:PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival, 2010 Guadalajara International Film Festival Mexico, Sydney Travelling Film Festival, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, HRAFF 2010, Fukuoka International Film Festival 2010, Global Lens USA 2010 and Dialogue of Cultures Film Festival New York 2011.

My Tehran for Sale is the winner of Independent spirit Inside Film Awards 2009.

2010

It won the jury award for best feature Film at the TriMedia Film Festival in 2010.

2014

Her second feature film When Pomegranates Howl was nominated for the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Award as the Best Youth Feature Film and was selected as Australian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.

Granaz was born in Tehran.

Her father, Hashem Moussavi, was a well-known sound engineer in Iranian National TV (Jaam-e Jam) and in the film industry, and her mother, Parvin Chegini Farahani, was a video grader.

She went to Razi primary school and Hadaf high school in Tehran.

Her love for cinema and theatre changed her mind about tertiary schooling.

She withdrew from a B.S. at Alzahra University and took various drama courses in Tehran, focusing on acting.

These included Hamid Samandarian's drama workshops at the Theatre Organization of Tehran, and Mahin Oskoui's underground acting classes held in her apartment.

When Pomegranates Howl was nominated for the 14th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards as the Best Youth Feature Film.

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