Akbar Alami (born in 1964) contemporary Persian T.V. announcer and commentator, director, documentary filmmaker
Childhood and Educations
His father was born in Damghan, but due to his job, he ceaselessly was traveling to various cities and finally married in Khuzestan. Akbar Alami was born in Ahwaz the capital city of Khuzestan and he passed the first years of his life in Khorramshahr, then in the company of his parents he left Khorramshahr for Damghan and when he was a young boy he moved to Tehran, the capital city of Iran.
He passed the second course in Ferdowsi High School located in Qolhak, one of the regions of the north of Tehran and then he studied cinema in the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and received his M.A. in the same field from the Institution of Lecturer Training University. He also received a diploma equal to decorate from England and Iran in 1989
Professional Activities
His records show a great number of professional T.V. artistic and cultural lasting programs as well as impressive critical views in the field of cinema. His films studies and critics and are remarkable. In 1983 he produced a T.V. serial under the title of “On the Other Face of the Coin” in 56 sections for channel 2 of Iran T.V which is a pedagogical work covering various subjects of film making. Alami in the 1990s was the announcer and commentator of an attractive program under the title of “the Seventh Art” which was one of the most significant T.V. programs in the field of Cinema. He also in the programs of “Ultra Cinema”, “Cinema and You” and “Cinema Five” appeared as an announcer and commentator and founded outstanding manners for thematic film criticism for analyzing the most precious world motion pictures. He also experienced acting in the film “Dad Granted Bread” which was screened in 1972. Alami made more than 30 documentary films for the industries of pharmaceutics, petrochemical, textile, and wood in Italian, French, English, Russian, Arabic, Spanish and German Languages. These films show his high and expensive outlook as well as his overwhelming view in the field of research methods.
Akbar Alami for 43 years has taught and lectured in the various Art universities throughout the country.
Positions
• In the first years after the victory of the Revolution, he was the head of the lab of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and at the same time, he was supervising the labs of Iran T.V.
• Member of the High Council of Book of Soroosh Publication (1980-1985)
• Member of the Academy of Art and the Academy of Language and Persian Literature (2000-2007)
• For many years he was judging the films of Fajr Festivals (the beginning of 1980s during the years that Mr. Fakhredding Anvar was the Minister deputy in the arena of cinema)
• Head of the board of Judges in the International section of the Animation Festival (during the course that Mr. Chiniforooshan was the manager of the Center of the Intellectual Growth for Children and Young Adults)
• The secretary of the International Festival of Art and Invocation (in the time that Mr. Masjed Jame’ie was the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance)
On 26th February 2014, along with the “Festival of Picture in the House of Iran Artists, in a glorious ceremony, the lifetime efforts of Akbar Alami in the field of photography and cinema was commemorated and he was called the “Architecture of the Word who Possesses Multifaceted Knowledge”
Works
Documentary Films
• The pearl of Persian Gulf (2008)
• The Persian Gulf, the nine-part area (2004-2008)
Announcing
• World, the Product of Art (2010); a five-part collection
• The talented photographers (2011); a four-part collection
• Why Beauty Is Matter (2015)
Works
• The book of The Power of the Words (a glossary of special vocabularies in the field of various arts such as plastic arts, cinema, photography, television, theater along with description and comments)
• The book of Cinema Devices. The book covers 4 sections that describe the special effects
• The book of Comprehensive Dictionary of Animation, the theme of the book is about the common expressions of animators and generally talks around commentaries and scientific expressions of animation which is compiled by Farnaz Khoshbakht under the supervision of Akbar Alami
Translation
He has Translated a book under the title of Developing in Photography and Cinema of C.A. and R.A. Jacobson, Tehran: Soroosh Publication (affiliated to T.V. organization), 1989
