Granaz Moussavi is an Australian-Iranian Writer/Director. Her 2002 Honors film A Short FilmAboutColour won the Flinders University Best Director Award. In 2006 she was awarded theHolding Redlich prize at the SPA Conference, allowing her to travel to Cannes Film Festival,pitching her project to the market there. Heraward-winningdebut feature filmMy Tehran forSale (2009) was the first film collaboration between Iran and Australia. It premiered at theAdelaide FF, was an official selection for the Toronto International FF, also screening atVancouver International FF, Pusan International FF, International Film festival Mannheim-Heidelberg among others. It also won the won the Australian IF Award for Best IndependentFilm.Born in Tehran, Granaz’s first poems were published when she was 16 years old and she hassince continued writing and publishing poetry in various magazines and anthologies, firstly inIran and then other countries ever since. To date, her poetry is translated and published innine languages. She has studied film in Australia, including a postgraduate degree in filmediting fromthe Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS). In between feature films,Granaz has also made several short films and documentaries.
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