A Man in Chain
Alireza Mirasadollah
Issa is a 29 year old man held by chains. In the past 14 years, through winter and summer, rainy seasons and drought, he has been tethered around a thick, solid tree root within the sight of the family hut. He cannot move beyond the earthen circle allowed by his two-meter-thick metal chain.
Director Biography
Alireza Mirasadollah is an award-winning director/producer with 12 years experience at the BBC and Iran International TV as a journalist and documentary maker with a total of 24 years in media having begun as an animator in New Zealand 1997.
Awards:
– The Girl with Blue Eyes (2020)
– Winner of the Spotlight Short Film Award
– Winner of the Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival Awards for Best Short Documentary
– Winner of the Grand OFF – World Independent Short Film Awards for Best Documentary
– Winner of the UNESCO Award in Lisbon for Best Short documentary www.heritales.org/wp/winners2020/
– Abdul Majid’s Goat (2019)
Nominated in AIBs International Media Excellence Awards 2019 for the Best Cultural Documentary
– The Girl with Curly Hair (2020)
Roxbury International Film Festival
The Pan African Film Festival
– KaiRA (2021)
Nominee of London Shorts Film Festival
Alireza Mirasadollah