Daryush Shokof

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Daryush Shokof
داریوش شکوف
Born	Ali Reza Shokoufandeh (1954-06-25) 25 June 1954 (age 67) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	Artist, filmmaker
Years active	1990s – present

Daryush Shokof (Persian: داریوش شکوف, born 1954) is an Iranian artist, film director, writer, and film producer based in Germany.

Biography[]

He was born as Ali Reza Shokoufandeh on 25 June 1954 in Tehran, Iran.^[1] Shokof graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Shokof received an MBA from University of Dallas in Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Films[]

Shokof made his first movie, a short experimental film called Angels are Wired, in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Alleged kidnapping[]

Shokof claimed that he was kidnapped by four terrorists in the city of Cologne, Germany, in late May 2010, and was kept for over twelve days in the hands of four Arabic-speaking men. German police denied his statement and told the press that this story was not verifiable, and might have been staged to attract attention.^[2][3]

Filmography[]

This filmography includes only films listed in IMDB.^[4]

Awards[]

• New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) Los Angeles, July 2011^[5]
  • Best Director of a Feature Film – for Hitler's Grave^[6]
• New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, March 2007^[7]
  • Award for Best International Director – category feature for: Breathful (2007)^[8]
• New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Winter 2000^{[citation needed]}
  • Feature Film Award for Best Experimental Film – Tenussian Vacuvasco (2000)^[9]
• Locarno International Film Festival 1996
  • Nominated for Golden Leopard for: Seven Servants (1996)^[10]

See also[]

• Islamic art
• Iranian art
• Islamic calligraphy
• List of Iranian artists

References[]

External links[]

• [1]
• Official website
• Daryush Shokof at IMDb
• Article: Interview with Daryush Shokof: The Magician from Persia on haolam.de from 2014 (in German)