Pezhmann Mokary

Director’s bio Pezhmann Mokary was born in Kurdistan in 1984. He loved cinema and started his Film Directing education in Cinema & Theater Film School, Art university of Tehran. While attending school, he started his career as a film critic and mainstream newspapers and magazines published his film articles. Later on, in 2009, he was invited by the Iranian youth cinema society, Sanandaj office to teach Film Analysis with a focus on Film Genre. In 2013 he moved to Denmark and enrolled in the MA Production Design program from The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, School of Design, Copenhagen, where he also had a chance to travel to Japan as a guest student and study animation at Osaka Seikei University. He has made several short films, fiction and documentary, both live-action and animation, and most of his movies have been premiered in international film festivals. In 2018 he won the best art film award from the MovieScreenPro film festival for his short film Memories and in 2020 received an award of excellence for his documentary Osaka: a city symphony From Kadoma film festival and also 3 nominations again for Osaka for best music, best edit and best documentary from Top Indie Film Awards. furthermore, His debut noir graphic novel “Tall Shadows: the narration of trust & betrayal” was released in 2019 and received many positive reviews from international critics. In 2020, he released his second book “First Traveler” which is a concept book. Currently, he is working on his first feature-length documentary which is about racism.