The Globe International Film Festival was founded in 2015 and its first year had received incredible reception on the international scale – around 2200 films were submitted to the festival. The goal is for the festival to be held in a different academic environment around the world every year in order for the interested people of that country to be exposed to silent cinema, which has been paid less and less attention to, and for a wave of silent filmmaking to be born in said country. Also it is now possible for people who couldn’t attend the festival in another country to take part in the festival in their own country. We hope that this way, image as a main element of this art will be revived.
We believe that the silent era of cinema has had an important role in making the picture and the mise en scène much richer and powerful. Although with the introduction of sound in cinema we have passed that era long ago, silent cinema is still carrying a large portion of avant-garde and artistic films.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. It became a land-grant institution in 1866. The 933-acre (378 ha) main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks.
UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 30,361 undergraduate and 14,052 graduate students in 2018. The University employs over 21,600 faculty and staff. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 master's degree programs and 120 doctoral programs.
The UW is one of America's Public Ivy universities, which refers to top public universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. UW–Madison is also categorized as a Doctoral University with the Highest Research Activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. As of October 2018, 25 Nobel laureates and 2 Fields medalists have been associated with UW-Madison as alumni, faculty, or researchers.
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. MSU was founded in 1855, then became the nation's first land-grant institution, serving as a model for future land-grant universities. The university was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, one of the country's first institutions of higher education to teach scientific agriculture. After the introduction of the Morrill Act in 1862, the college became coeducational and expanded its curriculum beyond agriculture. Today, MSU is the ninth-largest university in the United States (in terms of enrollment) and has approximately 540,000 living alumni worldwide. Michigan State frequently ranks among the top 30 public universities in the United States and the top 70 universities in the world per Times Higher Education. The university's campus houses the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, the Abrams Planetarium, the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, and the country's largest residence hall system.
For the first time, Michigan State will be hosting The Globe International Film Festival in Campus Center Cinemas at Wells hall. The kickoff will be on Thursday, April 6th. The closing ceremony will be on Sunday April 9th.
Founded in 1916, the Union Activities Board was the first student organization established at MSU. The Campus Center was founded in 1999 and provided late-night weekend entertainment. These two organizations joined in 2001 to form the University Activities Board. The University Activities Board provides quality social, recreational and educational programs planned and implemented by students, for students in the MSU community. UAB provides free or low-cost entertainment for students and serves as an alternate late night / weekend entertainment choice.
The University Activities Board provides quality social, recreational and educational programs planned and implemented by students, for students in the MSU community. UAB provides free or low-cost entertainment for students and serves as an alternate late night / weekend entertainment choice. UAB is committed to the personal, professional and educational development of its members.
UAB is comprised of eleven student directors, three advisors, two graduate students and over 50 members. The directors are undergraduate students who receive compensation for their position. All directors oversee their committee responsibilities and volunteers. UAB members are volunteers that attend meetings and participate in event planning and production.
The University of Art is one of the accredited universities in Iran. Some parts of this university were established in 1979. Then in 1991 five different institutes of arts combined together and University of Art was founded. This is the largest comprehensive university in Iran which is devoted to the art fields.
In 1979 after reorganizing five formerly independent institutions: The Conservatory of Music (1918), The Collage of National Music (1949), The Collage of Decorative Arts (1960), The Collage of Dramatic Arts(1964), And Farabi University (1975), it was formed as the Art Academic Complex, and in 1991, it was named as the University of Art.
University of Art is a major center for art education in Iran with an international reputation. This university has been pioneer in teaching so many of art majors in Iran and Middle East. University of Art has five faculties in Tehran and Karaj: Faculty of Applied Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Faculty of Cinema & Theater, Faculty of Music, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Currently there are 3950 full time students, 135 full time faculty members, and 330 part time professors in this university; with 21 majors in bachelor’s degree, 29 majors in master’s degree, and 5 major in PhD.
The 1st Globe International Silent Film Festival was held in Farabi Theater, with the support of The Cultural Department of University of Art, under the name of Tehran International Silent Film Festival.
The festival is run by a few film buff students, These are the people involved :
Ali Rabbi
Director
Leila Naserbakht
Deputy
Tahmineh Mansoori Roshan
Executive Director
Qazal Abedi
Public Relations
Armin Rangani
Graphist
Yasaman Nedjati
Translator
Shirin Ekhlasi
Editor
Shayan Zeinali
Social Media
Hamed Otadi
Webmaster
Raha Amirfazli
Director
Hamidreza Nassiri
Executive Director
Tahmineh Mansoori
Marketing Manager
Armin Rangani
Art Director
Maedeh Moeini
Silent Filmweek Coordinator
Parnian Mostafavi
Executive Coordinator
Lina Rabiee
Executive Coordinator
Qazal Abedi
Editor
Hamed Otadi
Webmaster
Raha Amirfazli
Director
Iman Harsini
Executive director
Mana Najaran
Deputy
Khashayar Rahimi
Coordinator
Ehsan Zivaralam
Public Relations
Armin Rangani
Graphist
Ziba Karamali
Editor
Ali Dasmah
Webmaster
Alireza Ghasemi
Director
Khorshid cheraghipour
Executive Coordinator
Ali Sedaghat
Film week coordinator
Bahram Emraani
Executive Coordinator
Armin Rangaani
Graphist
Amir Taghdiri
Executive Coordinator
Mana Nadjaran
Secretariat
Amin Saameti
International Director
Raha Amirfazli
Secretariat
Pouria Mousavi
Executive coordinator
Amir Pishvaei
Editor
Soheil Goharipour
Executive coordinator
Sasan Tofighian
Executive coordinator
The third Globe International Silent Film Festival was hosted by University of Wisconsin-Madison board of directors and Iranian students and associations. Wisconsin Iranian film festival also helped a lot in this (course) of the festival.
During submitting works about 700 films were sent to the festival portal that were mostly from European and American countries.
The competition section The third Globe international silent film festival competition section had 4 categories of fiction, experimental, documentary, animation, as it did before, also welcomed films for super short category for the first time. The competition was among the selected works that were chosen by the board of directors consisting of a group of filmmakers and activists in the fields of short film and particularly short silent film.
In Azar of 1396, The selection section of the third Globe Festival was started and the Selection team members were introduced to public.
The last stage of the festival, the judgement stage, was completed by the experienced Jury of this year festival that here we take a brief look at their backgrounds.
The 2nd Globe International Silent Film Festival was held in April 2017. With the hosting of the Michigan State University (MSU), and the support of University Activities Board (UAB) and Persian Student Associations (PSU).
By the end of the submission deadline, around 3000 films were submitted to the festival portal.
On October 21st 2016, the public relations committee of the Festival introduced the selection committee via an announcement. The selection committee members are as follows:
On April 10th 2017 the jury meeting was held. A group of famous veterans of cinema were present. Due to the high qualities of the films and different opinions of the jury the meeting took a while. The jury members of the festival are as followed:
The 1st Globe International Silent Film Festival was held in April 2016. With the hosting of the Art University of Tehran, and the support of the house of cinema of the ministry of science, research and technology.
By the end of the submission deadline, 2466 films were recorded on our portal.
On December 20th 2015, the public relations committee of the Festival introduced the selection committee via an announcement. The selection committee members are as follows:
On May 16th 2016 the jury meeting was held. A group of famous veterans of cinema were present. Due to the high qualities of the films and different opinions of the jury the meeting took a while. The jury members of the festival are as followed:
On December 20th 2015, the public relations committee of the Festival introduced the selection committee via an announcement. The selection committee members are as follows:
The ending and award ceremony of the festival took place on Saturday May 18th 2016 from 6 to 8 pm, in the Farabi Theater of Tehran University of Art, which was without a doubt one of the most beautiful days of the festival. The ceremony was directed by Soheil Goharipour and hosted by Amir Taghdiri, while authorities, artists, and students were present. Following the reading of the director’s statement by Alireza Ghasemi and the Jury’s statement – prerecorded with the voice of Mr. Kalari – the awards and certificated of appreciation were presented to the winners. It was the presence of honorable people such as Ms. Hayde Safiyari, Mr. Safi Yazdanian, Mr. Bahram Tavakkoli, Mr. Morteza Razzagh Karimi, and Mr. Masoud Soflayi that gave the first year of the Tehran International Silent Film Festival its warmth and credit.
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