Reza Allamehzadeh Reza Allamehzadeh
Reza Allamehzadeh was a guest speaker for the evening Narratives on Iran on 21 April 2015 at Framer Framed, in collaboration with Cineblend and Dancing on the Edge. The panel discussion was part of the public program for the exhibition Crisis of History #3: Beyond History in 2015.
Reza Allamehzadeh (b. 1943) is an Iranian-born Dutch filmmaker, film critic and writer who lives in the Netherlands. He is primarily known for his films about refugees, such as The Guests of Hotel Astoria (1988), and the documentary Holy Crime (1994), about the murder of opposition figures in Europe by the Islamic regime in Iran. Allamehzadeh was born in Sari, Mazandaran province, Iran. He studied film directing at Tehran Academy of Film and Television in 1966-1969. Along with filmmaking, he writes and publishes children’s books, novels and short stories.