Siamak Pourzand was born in 1931 in a military family. Contrary to family tradition, he escaped from the military school at night and eventually started his favorite job, journalism, at the "Bakhtar Emruz" newspaper as a cultural, artistic, ...
Siamak Pourzand was born in 1931 in a military family. Contrary to family tradition, he escaped from the military school at night and eventually started his favorite job, journalism, at the "Bakhtar Emruz" newspaper as a cultural, artistic, and parliamentary reporter. Bakhtar Emruz was managed by Hossein Fatemi, the Foreign Minister under Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.
Siamak had a special skill in establishing organizations. He is credited with creating film festivals in Iran during that era. From 1950, at the age of eighteen, sometimes alone and sometimes in collaboration with others, he introduced society to film, cinema, and cinematic festivals. The book "Cinema of Iran," authored by Bahman Maghsoudlou, contains a summary of the roles this press and cinema personality played.
Emphasizing the necessity of cinema growth and development, he pursued his modernist ideals with great difficulty during his youth. He had the ability to persuade high-ranking officials of the Shah to attend the opening of film festivals and convince literary and artistic elites to accept judging roles in these festivals.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Siamak Pourzand successfully introduced Western cinema to Iran. Many years after Siamak organized festivals and film events with bare hands, the Shah's officials entered this field of cultural work.
All of Siamak’s cultural and cinematic contributions were, after the 1979 revolution, placed under accusations of crime, treason, and moral corruption, resulting in an indictment by the ignorant prosecutors of the revolution aimed at destroying modernism. A brief account of this is included in the book.
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