Fathollah Amiri

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Fathollah Amiri (Persian: فتح الله امیری, born 1981) is an Iranian documentary filmmaker with a career focusing on the environment and wildlife of Iran. His film The Ranger and the Leopard received the Green Screen award in Germany in 2018, which is known as the "Documentary Oscar".^[1] His film Vortex won the 33rd edition of the Sondrio Festival in Italy in 2019.^[2][3] He has also served as a judge at the Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia in 2019^[4] and the Sondrio Festival of Environmental Films in Italy in 2020.

Fathollah Amiri was born in 1981 in Ilam, Iran. He developed a passion for environmental and wildlife issues early in life, which later influenced his career choice.^[5] Amiri pursued higher education in film studies and holds a master's degree in Documentary Production from IRIB University.^[6]

Amiri's career as a documentary filmmaker began in the early 2000s. He has directed and produced numerous documentaries that shed light on the environmental challenges and unique wildlife of Iran.^[7]

• Crystal Simorgh for Best Feature Documentary (2011) for In Search of the Iranian Leopard
• Grand Prize for Best Film at the Cinema Verite Festival (2014) for Alamto A Reptile Wonderland^[8]
• Cypress Award for Best Documentary Series at the Jam-e Jam TV Festival (2013) for producing the series Reptiles of Iran
• Cypress Award for Best Documentary Director at the Jam-e Jam TV Festival (2018) for The Ranger and the Leopard
• Best Documentary Award at the National Student Film Festival for Life in Eclipse (2009)
• Wildscreen Award (known as the Green Oscar) for In the Realm of the Spider-Tailed Viper (2018)^{[9] [10]}
• 2018 Panda Award Winner
• 2017 Jackson Hole Award Winner^[11]

Amiri's recent works include In the Whirlpool of Extinction (2017) and Houbara (2018).^[12]

Amiri is a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association, the Iranian Documentary Cinema Producers Association, and the Environmental Committee of IRIB.^[13]

• In Search of the Iranian Leopard (2011)
• Alamto A Reptile Wonderland (2014)
• Reptiles of Iran (2013)
• The Ranger and the Leopard (2018)
• Life in Eclipse (2009)
• In the Realm of the Spider-Tailed Viper (2018)
• In the Whirlpool of Extinction (2017)
• Houbara (2018)

• Fathollah Amiri at IMDb