Mahdi Shafiee: 36th Fadjr International Festival Pushes Theater a Big Step Forward

Mahdi Shafiee, director general of the Dramatic Arts Center, Farhad Mohandespour, secretary of the section, members of the juries, as well as theater lovers attended the opening ceremony of Espand Exibition on March 3, Iran Theater reported.

Shafiee said at the ceremony that he would thank master Mohandepour for his excellent organizing of the festival, which was one of the most successful ones of different editions of the event.

He invited the experts to judge the festival fairly as it had been closed recently, describing its out-of-stage section of international category as one of the most innovative ones.

On separation of visual identity from the main section, Shafiee explained that specialized sections were separated to give them an opportunity to be seen out of the fuss of the main parts.

"Poster, advertisement and photo sections have the potential to be seen independently," he said. "This independence will help empowerment of the section more and more every year."

Shafiee thanked the organizers of the section such as Ebrahim Hosseini, Mr Esmi and Mr Ahena at the end.

Also, Mohamdespour said that separation of some sections of the festival was a risky measure while it means those who takes responsibility for it like Amir Esmi are interested in the field badly.   

The winners were awarded at the end of the ceremony.

The finalists of theater advertisement competition were trailers of plays including Fatherless, Peperoni for Dictator, The History Boys, Diabolic of Romeo and Juliet, the Blue Eastern, Party of Penalties, Lamborghini, Marat Sade, Mississippi Dies Sitting, Music, City-Game as well as advertisement items of  Dedicated to Italo Calvino, Can't Talk about It and Harvey.

Judges had also chosen 63 posters designed by 33 designers for the Espand Exhibition.

Mahdi Asaditabar, Iman Arzi, Mohammad Afshar, Zahra Ansari, Farideh Barati, Siamak Toudehfallah, Majid Tavakoli, Rasoul Haghjou, Soroush Haydari, Maysam Khavari, Mahdi Davei, Sousan Samanifar, Amir Rajabi, Ali Rafiee, Mohammad Sadegh Zarjouyan, Masoud Zamanirazi, Fereshteh Abedi, Javad Ali Khoeiyan, Morteza Farahnak, Amin Ghanbari, Hamed Kazemi, Kamal Kachouyian, Mohammad Karimimoghaddam, Arman Koucheki, Tarlan Loftizadeh, Afshin Mojarabi-Tabrizi, Hossein Mohammadi Vahidi, Seyyed Mohammad Mosavat, Maysam Naderi, Farid Nazari, Ehsan Neghabat, Amin Vatani Shahmirzadi and Elham Hemmat are the graphic designers whose posters reached final stage.