Jaber Ramezani
- Director
- Writer
- Production Designer
Iranian-born Writer/Director studied BA in Dramatic Literature from Sooreh Art and MA in Directing from TarbiatMoodares Art University, Tehran.
His directorial debut "' A New Play" (2008) was nominated for Isfahan International Film & Theatre Festival. He then devoted his time to writing both scripts and plays in "The Hole in The Wall" group which he co-founded.
hi co-founded The Hole in the Wall Theatre Company in 2009 with two other fellow writers aiming at creating new contemporary plays for Iranian audiences. The company soon entered into theatre and film production and has been performing on Iranian and international stages ever since.
Jaber writes for stage and screen and also investigates contemporary forms and experiments with new content as dramaturge.
The play "Slow Sound of Snow" (2014) which established his name as Iranian young talent directing innovative plays, brought him the Best Director award in The Itself International Theater Festival (Warsaw).
The internationally acclaimed DOP, Touraj Aslani collaborated with Jaber in two of his short movies "Exterior Wash" (premiered at the 14th Dhaka International Short Film Festival 2015) and Submersions (34th Tehran international film festival (2017).
His plays have been performed in different countries, and films based on his scripts have been selected by international festivals such as: The Summer works festival (Toronto 2018), George Town Festival (Malaysia 2017) ITSELF International Festival (Warsaw - 2015), Venice Open Stage (Italy), Fadjr International Festival (Tehran), Dhaka International Short Film Festival His last performance was staged in Tehran In 2022, Jaber directed his play "Audience" which was censored and shot down by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance accusing it to be vulgar and promoting sexual violence
His plays have been performed in different countries, and films based on his scripts have been selected by international festivals such as: The Summer works festival (Toronto 2018), George Town Festival (Malaysia 2017) ITSELF International Festival (Warsaw - 2015), Venice Open Stage (Italy), Fadjr International Festival (Tehran), Dhaka International Short Film Festival His last performance was staged in Tehran In 2022, Jaber directed his play "Audience" which was censored and shot down by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance accusing it to be vulgar and promoting sexual violence