Crystal Simorgh for Best ScreenplayW
Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay

Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran.

Behrouz AfkhamiW
Behrouz Afkhami

Behrouz Afkhami is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is known for a style that utilizes point of view camera techniques to portray stories of human drama. He was also member of the Iranian Parliament from 2000 to 2004. He was the host of the third series of the television program, Haft.

Alireza Davood NejadW
Alireza Davood Nejad

Alireza Davood Nejad is an Iranian director, screenwriter, and producer. His son is the TV actor Reza Davood Nejad.

Mohammad Davoudi (screenwriter)W
Mohammad Davoudi (screenwriter)

Mohammad Davoudi is an Iranian screenwriter and director. He is a winner of Fajr International Film Festival's Best Screenplay for the film Shirin's Castle.

Asghar FarhadiW
Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.

Hamid FarrokhnezhadW
Hamid Farrokhnezhad

Hamid Farrokhnezhad is an Iranian actor, writer and director. He graduated from the Theatre Director program in Tehran University's Fine Arts Department. His practical thesis was based on the Bertolt Brecht play He Said Yes / He Said No and his theoretical thesis was titled Theater in the East

Peyman GhasemKhaniW
Peyman GhasemKhani

Peyman GhasemKhani is an Iranian film screenwriter, director and actor.

Ebrahim HatamikiaW
Ebrahim Hatamikia

Ebrahim Hatamikia is an Iranian Film director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer and Actor. Hatamikia is known for films depicting the Iran–Iraq War's impact on Iran. His films are considered some of the best ever made in the Iranian war cinema and most notable for their attention to social changes brought about by the war. Also, he is best-known for his explorations of the trauma by the war; both on returning soldiers and those who await them, unable to mourn effectively without knowing the fate of their loved ones.

Masoud Jafari JozaniW
Masoud Jafari Jozani

Masoud Djafari Djozani is a film director, screenwriter and film producer. He received an M.A. in cinema from the San Francisco State University (1977). In his feature films, he generally deals with heroic subjects in the natural environment with a historical and epic tone. Some of his films were awarded local prizes. His 2009 film In the Wind's Eye, the conclusion to his television series Dar Chashm-e Baad, was partially filmed in Los Angeles, making it the first Iranian production to be shot in the United States since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. With a budget of US$12 million, it is also among the most expensive films in Iranian history.

Majid MajidiW
Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi is an Iranian film director, producer, and screenwriter, who started his film career as an actor. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous international awards.

Mohsen MakhmalbafW
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.

Dariush MehrjuiW
Dariush Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrju'i is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, film editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts.

Tahmineh MilaniW
Tahmineh Milani

Tahmineh Milāni is a feminist activist, film director, and producer. Milani was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. She is the wife of the Iranian actor and producer Mohammad Nikbin.

Reza MirkarimiW
Reza Mirkarimi

Reza Mirkarimi is an Iranian film writer and director. He graduated from Fine Arts University in graphic arts in Tehran. His cinema activities started from 1987 with a short film named For Him and with a series of shorts followed by two TV series aimed at young people. His 1999 first feature, The Child and The Soldier, has won several national and international awards, including the ”Golden Butterfly” at the 1999 Isfahan International Children and Youth Film Festival, Iran and the "Montgolfiere d'Argent” at the Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes, France, in 2000, as well as the "Golden Shoe" at the "Children and Teenagers Film Festival" in Zelin, Croatia, in 2001. The Child and The Soldier, was released in France in 2001. In 2000, his second feature, Under the Moonlight, dealing with social and religious issues won the Best Feature Award at the 40th Critics' Week at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival. The film also won the Best Director's Award as well as the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo IFF in 2001, and the Golden Peacock Award at the International Film Festival of India. His fourth and fifth feature films, As Simple as That (2007) and Daughter (2016), won the Golden George Award for the Best Picture at the 30th and the 38th Moscow International Film Festival respectively. He also contributes to young Iranian directors by producing their films. He has produced Don't be Tired in 2012 and Voice of Silence in 2013. His latest film, Castle of Dreams (2019), won big at Shanghai International Film Festival, receiving three awards for the best picture, the best director, and the best actor. Mirkarimi has so far won seven Golden Simorgh awards at the Fajr International Film Festival. Three of his films have been presented by Iran for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar: So Close, So Far, A Cube of Sugar, and Today. He has also sat on several international film festival juries, including Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia), Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan), Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia), Bogota International Film Festival (Colombia), Golden Apricot – Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia), and as jury president at the 39th Moscow International Film Festival. He has also served as managing director of Khane-ye Cinema. Reza Mirkarimi has been director of Fajr International Film Festival for the last four years.

Houshang Moradi KermaniW
Houshang Moradi Kermani

Houshang Moradi Kermani is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Kambuzia PartoviW
Kambuzia Partovi

Kambuzia Partovi was an Iranian film director and scriptwriter.

Saeed RoustayiW
Saeed Roustayi

Saeed Roustayi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.

Rasul Sadr AmeliW
Rasul Sadr Ameli

Rasoul Sadrameli was born in December 1954 in Isfahan, Iran. The Managing Director of MILAD FILM began his journalism career while he was just 17, and he collaborated with Etela'at Newspaper as reporter, storywriter and editor of Incident page and then as the Editor of Parliamentary Service. He studied sociology at Paul Valéry university of Montpellier in France. He began his professional activities in the Cinema by production of a film entitled Blood Raining in 1981. This film is the first cinematic project after revolution.

Yadollah SamadiW
Yadollah Samadi

Yadollah Samadi (Persian: یدالله صمدی‎, was an Iranian film director. He was known for directing the 2008 film Takam-Chi.

Houman SeyyediW
Houman Seyyedi

Houman Seyyedi is an Iranian actor and filmmaker.

Parviz ShahbaziW
Parviz Shahbazi

Parviz Shahbazi is an Iranian filmmaker.

Khosrow SinaiW
Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, music composer, poet, and scholar.

Kamal TabriziW
Kamal Tabrizi

Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, with his parents having moved there from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer & reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Kamal Tabrizi graduated from Tehran University of Art at Faculty of Cinema and Theater.