Parstoday- Young Iranians won Best Director and Best Editing at the Chicago International Film Festival
Ramin Hosseinpour, Iranian director, writer and producer of the short film “Sculpture”, won the Best Director Award at the Crown Point International Film Festival (CPIFF). “Ehsan Vaghti” also won the Best Editing Award for this film.
According to Parstoday, this festival, which has completed its 45th edition, will award a cash prize and a trophy (trophy, i.e. Zafar award) to the winner of the year in the annual screening, which will be held in three months, and the winning films will be screened on cinema screens for a week in the city of Chicago.
The Iranian short documentary film “Sculpture” tells the biography of the famous Iranian poet Jalal al-Din Muḥammad Rumi called Mowlana or Molavi (1207-1273 AD) and Shams Tabrizi, one of the famous Iranian mystics (1185-1247 AD).
Iranian filmmaker Ramin Hosseinpour was awarded at the Crown Point International Film Festival (CPIFF) in Chicago, winning the award for Best Director of a Short Film for his documentary ‘Sculpture.’ Hosseinpour, who also wrote and produced the film, picked up the award at the 45th edition of the festival, which was held in September 2024. The film’s editor, Ehsan Vaseghi, also won the award for Best Editing, Mehr News Agency reported. The CPIFF, which has been running for 45 years, will showcase the winning films on screens in Chicago for a week and present the winners with a cash prize and a trophy at its annual awards ceremony, to be held in three months. ‘Sculpture’ is a documentary short film based on the true story of the lives of Rumi and Shams. The film is currently competing to qualify for the Academy Awards in the United States and Canada, as well as the BAFTAs. It has also been ranked among the top 50 short films and documentaries on IMDb. Hosseinpour, who combines cinema, architecture, and music in his work, has won several international awards in the past
Ramin Hosseinpour is a multi-talented media and iranian film director who is also a graduate of architecture and design. His experimental media projects have been shown in various platforms. His works include music, film, design and artistic concepts. His projects have won many awards in independent film festivals around the world.
As a composer, arranger, singer and a musician, he started his career in 2014 with the work of Ghanimat. After the successful release of Ghanimat, he made a lot of efforts to combine the architectural space with cinema and music with the release of video art of Eshtiagh , until he reached the finals of international festivals through the making of the video art of sculpture which he officially released in 2021 and later won more than 42 international festival competitions.
This video art is the subject of the biography of Rumi and Shams Tabrizi, Rumi and Shams Tabrizi are considered to be the greatest poets of the Persian language, the first success of Ramin Hosseinpour began at the international level by receiving the award for the best music video from the independent Vancouver festival and continued to achieve many achievements for Ramin Hosseinpour, including winning festivals in Moscow, Munich, California, Boden, London, Las Vegas, Paris, New York and Los Angeles and… the awards he won in these festivals, such as the best music video, the best documentary director, the best musician, the best stage designer, the best singer at the Los Angeles International Festival and the best experimental music video at the Berlin International Art Film Festival. Berlin.
Ramin has worked on 4 albums (8 choices, contemporary, ganjoor Avangard) and several single tracks. He is an independent artist who produces all the videos and music and Architecture by himself, and his unique creativity has made him appear in the domestic and international media. His sculpture video art is ranked second on Imdb’s top 50 documentary music videos. And he is considered to be the originator of combining architecture with cinema and music.
