Mahboubeh Honarian
Mahboubeh Honarian (Persian: محبوبه هنریان) is an Iranian documentary filmmaker, director and producer. She was awarded her BA in media and cultural studies and in 1999, she completed her MSc in engineering multimedia in the United Kingdom.Honarian has been working as a producer and director, on documentaries related to social issues such as homelessness, drugs, child abuse, etc. Her films are emphasize women and children. She has also produced and directed a broad range of TV series/programmes on social and cultural issues.Honarian has been invited to serve on the jury of a number of film festivals including the International Emmy Awards in New York from 2010 to 2013, the Documentary Voices, Pulling Focus festival in Dubai in 2008, and the Great 11th Festival of Iranian Cinema in Iran in 2007.She has been a guest filmmaker at the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Germany, in 2010. A guest filmmaker at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. A member of a discussion panel at Spotlight on Iran in Canada, 2008 and at the GZ DOC film festival on International Producer’s Day in China, in 2008, 2012 and 2013.She has been a member of Program Supervisory Board for the Conference of Visual Representations of Iran, University of St-Andrews, Scotland in 2008 and a member of Scientific Board for the First Symposium on Visual Anthropology of Iran, Anthropology Society of Iran, Tehran University in 2007.Honarian has been the president of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association for four years (2004–2008) and as an information/documentation officer for the United Nations Development Programme after the disastrous earthquake in Bam, Iran in 2004.
