G Hassan A.Pour

Gholam Hassan Akhond Pour (Hassan Akhondpour)

• Author, producer and director of cinema and television
• Founder and CEO of PAYA FILM TOOS Cinema Company

I was born in 1981 in Mashhad, Iran. I was interested in theater since I was 11 years old at school; I started to play with local theater when I was a teenager. I was studying and working in a small studio and was making my first short film with the camera that I had since I was 16 years old. I started to work with some personal media companies and worked on a number of successful projects with the local TV of Khorasan province. I opened, PAYA FILM TOOS, my own production Cinema Company on January 9 th 2008, when I was 26 years old and started to produce my own films and signed different contracts. The first TV series that I produced was "Zire Saqfe Arezou" in 2007, in this project I was the director, producer and “Paya Film Toos” was the Production Company. For quite a few years, I continued producing different TV programs for Iranian TV channels and it was in 2011 when I produced my first feature film “The City That Never Sleeps.” In 2014, I worked on two more telefilms (television long films) called "Roshana" and "Taraneh Paeizi" in both of which I was the executive producer, producer and director. One year later, I signed a contract for “Be Range Baran” which was a forty- episode TV series as a producer and director, and the telefilms “Ziba” and “Hamishe Aghaz” were my other productions for Iran national TV. In 2016, which was a busy year for me and my company, in addition to my regular production of advertisements and TV programs for Iranian TV channels, I successfully directed a popular TV series called Talkh o Shirin and started my second feature film “Fereshteh, Daughter of Ahmed.” In this film that won many important international awards, I was the executive producer, screen writer and director. In the following year, I signed a contract with a private filmmaking company for “Baher, Her Mind” which was chosen as the most expensive short film in cinema history of Iran at that time and was screened at short film corner of Cannes film festival in 2016. This short film was later screened in many other national and international festivals and has won many awards and was screend at Art and Experience group of cinema in Iran. In 2017, Paya Film Toos participated for the second time in Cannes film market and screened “Fereshteh, Daughter of Ahmed,” which was a beginning for this film to find its way to many other international film festivals. In 2018, besides our usual productions, I produced “Amnesia” a documentary which was screened at Art and Experience section of Iran cinema and I plan to screen this film at Cannes film market of 2019.