Mahdi Bemani Naeini

Mahdi Bemani Naeini is an Iranian film director, cinematographer, TV news producer and photographer.

Bemani was born into an Iranian middleclass family in Mashad on November 3, 1968. For the first time he touched camera at the age of ten when he developed and printed his first photos personally in his home made atelier. Throughout his early teens, Mahdi Bemani made amateur 8160mm movies with his family and friends. His films widely intended and presented in domestic and international film festivals and by the time he was 17, he gained many national and international prizes. He graduated from IYCS, Iranian Young Cinema Society in 1984 where he experienced film making and photography systematically.

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