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Jan 27, 1992 Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran 32 years old
Iranian artist
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About Sam Chegini
- Sam Chegini (Persian: ??? ??????) is an award winning Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1992 in an artistic family. In 2009 Sam joined VOP (Voice of Peace), a group that worked on reconstructing ancient Persian musical instruments, sponsored by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and IAARA.
- He made the artistic film The Lyre of Mesopotamia, which received an award for 'best video art' in the 1st Persbookart Contest on Facebook in 2010. In 2011 Dutch singer/songwriter Linde Nijland asked him to make a music video for her song "Traveller", after having seen a video he made for the song 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' by Chris de Burgh.
- Traveller has been the official selection of many prestigious music video and film festivals around the globe and has been screened in different countries so far.
- In 2013, Sam won the Royal Reel Award from Canada International Film Festival for this music video and it was also voted no.
- 1 in the Frisian charts in the Klipkar+TV programme.in 2016 Sam made an animated music video for renowned British comedian, actor, musician, Sir Lenny Henry, titled "The Cops Don't Know" which was premiered on Classic Rock Magazine on April 20, 2016.
- Henry praised the video in his interview with Classic Rock Magazine saying the video has a "labour of love" style and "Sam is clearly gifted."in 2017 Sam joined Verbatim Theater Group for the play MANUS, directed by Nazanin Sahamizadeh.
- As Video Artist, Video Mapper and International affairs, Sam worked with the team in 3 International festivals including the 36th Fajr International Theater Festival (Tehran, Iran), 2 performances in Bangladesh, (Chittagong and Dhaka) and 10th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (Thrissur, Kerala, India).
- [1] As Artistic Director, Sam organized the 9th Wordless International Short Film Festival in the city of Qazvin, Iran, same time screening with Sydney, Australia in November 2017.[2] in 2018 Sam was invited to the Talent Campus of the 36th International Fajr Film Festival, Darolfonoon and has had masterclasses with likes of Oliver Stone, Jörn Donner, Thomas Mauch, Roberto Perpignani, Karen Shakhnazarov, Reza Kianian, Mehran Kashani, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Naghmeh Samini, Mehrdad Oskouei, etc.[3][4] In August 2018, Sam created and hosted an online series of interviews titled "SamChats" on YouTube and Aparat, interviewing the most successful international artists worldwide, designated for the Persian speaking audience for the first time.
- In the first 2 episodes, Neil Taylor, Lena Katina and Alex Jolig have appeared on the show.[5] Sam Chegini is also a member of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Intercultural Leaders.
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