Hossein Martin Fazeli
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Hossein Martin Fazeli is an Iranian-Canadian writer, director, and producer. He has created fiction and non-fiction films and television projects and has directed and produced in more than a dozen countries.
His films have been broadcast on CBC, BBC, ARTE, and Canal+, winning international awards. He has collaborated with UNDP, European Commission, and Nonviolence International on film and television projects, including national and regional campaigns.
His 2007 production "The Tale of Two Nazanins", which follows the case of a teenage girl on death row in Iran, was broadcast on BBC and CNN.
In 2008, Fazeli was chosen by the Sundance Institute to take part in their International Filmmakers Award. He has lectured and held workshops with students at SOAS (UK), Aarhus University & European Film Academy (Denmark), SFU (Canada), MIT (India) and Berlin School of Arts, Media and Entertainment (Germany).
Career
Fazeli was born in 1963 Shiraz, Iran. In 1984 he left Iran for Dubai before emigrating to Canada to study film production at Concordia University and the Vancouver Film School. After completing his studies, he moved to Europe, where he wrote and directed a range of independent films.
Beyond filmmaking, Fazeli is also a poet. He has published six books of poetry in Persian under the pen name “Naanaam” («نانام»).[1][2][3]
Selected Filmography
| Film | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| I Am Gitxsan | 2025 | Feature-Length Documentary about the Gitxsan First Nation in Canada. |
| Phoolan | 2026 | Currently in Post-Production. Feature-Length Documentary about India's Bandit Queen. |
| Our Country, Our Name | 2026 | Currently in Production. Feature-Length Documentary about the Canadian decedent, Yves Engler and his views on Canadian foreign policy. |
| Women on the Front Line | 2015 | Feature-Length Documentary about Iranian women's right activists who are on the forefront of one the largest nonviolent civil right movements in West Asia. |
| Legacy of Nonviolent Movements in Iran | 2011 | Documentary |
| Inscribed | 2008 | Fiction |
| The Tale of Two Nazanins | 2007 | Documentary with dramatic reconstructions |
| The T-shirt | 2006 | Fiction |
| The Blind Man | 2006 | Media Campaign for the European Commission |
| The Journey | 2006 | Poem Film |
| A Foreign Poem | 2004 | Poem Film |
| Who is Sahraa? | 2003 | Documentary about Sahraa Karimi, Afghan Actress, Refugee, Rebel! |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fazeli, (Naanaam) Hossein (1997). "Exile and Dissonance: The Poetry of Naanaam (Hossein Fazeli)". Iranian Studies. 30 (3–4): 379–383. doi:10.1080/00210869708701887.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Better remain dead". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burgoyne, Robert (1 April 2017). "The dark power of belonging: The T-Shirt". Short Film Studies. 7 (1): 93–96. doi:10.1386/sfs.7.1.93_1. hdl:10023/13054.
External links
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- Hossein Martin Fazeli at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Fazeli Films
- Phoolan
- P.O.V. Filmtidsskrift, Danish Journal of Film Studies
- Tricko (The T-Shirt)
- The Blind Man
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