Raft Films

Farhad Najafi

Director, Writer, Producer

Biography

Farhad Najafi is an Iranian Director, Writer and Producer. He was born in Naishabur, Iran. After he entered the conservatory art school for studying graphic designing, he found out his passion in professional photography and following after that in movie industry and directing. He made his first documentary film called “Iran and Naria” in the very early months of entering art school despite the obstacles and limited environment of movie industry in Iran. A short film called “motion” was only needed four months to be created by him after then. At the only age of nineteen, he began to write the screenplay of his first movie “First move”, after producing four short films. Then he launched the direction of his first series “Matador” which is the most successful action genre Iranian TV-show so far. Making successful and award winning action movies and series such as Room Number Zero, Aspirin and Matador which has won the best film of Moscow international festival in action genre, has made him to climb up the career ladder surprisingly.

Filmography

  • One Night in Tehran / 2019 / Fiction / Director
  • Aspirin / 2016 / Series / Director
  • Room Number Zero / 2014 / Fiction / Director
  • Matador / 2013 / Series / Director
  • First Move / 2007 / Fiction / Director

Awards

  • 2020 – AWARD – Director’s circle – Poppy Jasper Film Festival – CALIFORNIA. USA
  • 2019 – WINNER – Queen Palm International Film Festival – Palm Springs .USA
  • 2019 – FINALIST – White Unicorn International Film Festival – Kolkata, India
  • 2019 – Nominee – Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles Hollywood – USA
  • 2019 – Nominee – Directors Cut Int’l Film Festival – Vancouver, B.C. Canada
  • 2019 – Nominee – Alter do Chão Film Festival – Santarém, Pará .Brazil -2019