Short Film News, as the first news network on short films and documentaries in Iran & Asia, was established in 2004 by Riahi sisters as a non-governmental independent institution. Considering the activities of thousands of filmmakers on short films and documentaries and producing 3 thousand short films and documentaries each year by Iranian filmmakers, it was necessary to have a professional network media to cover the related news to this field.
Since, in the last decades, the most success of Iran cinema in the international events belongs to Iranian short films and documentaries, and on the other hand, the audiences of short films are increasing all over the world due to new medias (internet, mobile phone, etc.), we decided to activate the English page of our website in 2005 as well.
Our main goal is to make an international network for independent filmmakers all over the world where they can find the related news to festivals, short films and documentaries events in different parts of the world. We publish all news relating to short film and documentary in any part of the world and filmmakers and festival directors can contact us for publishing their news in our website.
Introducing Iranian shorts and documentaries to the festivals and other showing programs is another service we can arrange. We can provide a collection of the best Iranian shorts and documentaries for the events and festivals interested in screening Iranian films.
Also there is the possibility for the filmmakers to be a member of film section of our website to introduce their works.
During these years, SFN had been the news sponsor of the following festivals and events:
- 6th Kish International Documentary Film Festival, Iran
- 2nd Kabul International Documentary and Short Films Festival, Afghanistan
- 1st Cinema Verite international Documentary Film Festival, Iran
- 24th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
- 25th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
- 6th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 7th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 8th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 2nd MOTELx- Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Portugal
- 3rd Didar International Film Festival, Tajikistan
- Depict! '08 International Short Film Competition, UK
- 8th Yari Film Festival, Sweden
-7th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, India
-8th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, India
-2nd European Off Film Awards (GRAND OFF), Poland
-3rd World Off Film Awards Grand Off, Poland
- 7th Irpen film festival, Ukraine
- International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA 2009, Poland
- 7th Hull International Short Film Festival, UK
- Opolskie Lamy International Short Film Festival, Poland
- 2nd Jaipur International Film Festival, India
At the time being we are the sole professional network medium on short films and documentaries in Asia who is ready to cooperate with the international events.
Marjan Riahi, Founder & Manager of SFN
- Graduated in Communications Science, Journalism branch from Islamic Azad University.
- Graduated in Cinema Directing from Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS).
- Began her activities in Journalism on 1998 in Iranian newspapers and journals.
- Directing Eternal Mothers, a documentary about Iranian actresses in 2001; the film screened in several Iranian and International Festivals and won the Best Short Documentary Award in Dubai Short Film Festival in 2002.
- A member of International Federation of Journalists IFJ
- A member of Iran Journalists SENFI
- A member of Iranian Society of Film Critics & Writers
- A member of European Off Film Awards
- A member of NETPAC
- Producer of children short films
- A jury member in the 2nd Kabul International Documentary and Short Film Festival in 2007. (Afghanistan)
- A jury member in 7th Third Eye Asian Film Festival in 2008 (India)
- A jury member in 2nd GRAND OFF Film Festival in 2008 (Poland)
- A jury member in International ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA Film Festival in 2009 (Poland)
- A NETPAC jury member in 16th edition of the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in 2010 (France)
marjan@shortfilmnews.com
