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AMIN & AKVAN
Writer&Director: Zohal razavi
Storyboard: Rana Abedi, Sajad Ismail Baigy
Character designer and background design: Masih Razavi
Concept artist: Negar Ahmadi
Animators: Rana Abedi, Sajad Ismail Baigy, Masih Razavi, Mohammad Reza Saghafi
Digital supervisor and Editor: Mahdi Saffarpour
Music supervisor: Sepehr Abbasi
Casting by: Farzad Shirmohammadi
Sound designer: Moslem Razavi
Producers: Zohal Razavi, Mahdi Saffarpour
2D, HD, Sterio, 2017
Feature 76mins,Serial (15X13)
SYNOPSIS
Two young men (Amin and Akvan) one a barber, one a dyer, are both experts in their profession. They go to a remote town by ship. The town has limited industries and crafts and it is therefore a good market for work. They decide to start a new life.
Amin tries hard and succeeds in controlling soap production and distribution market. He meets a boy, Farbod, who accompanies him in the story. Amin marries Firoozeh (Farbod’s mother) and starts again the attar shop which is an inheritance from Farbod’s father. Their family of three becomes credible among the people and the court of the town’s ruler by working hard.
Akvan finds good income and fame in the good market for his profession, and he becomes successful sooner because of his ability to collude and his glib tongue. As he mixes jealousy with competition, he colludes with Fariborz, a profiteering and greedy merchant who has lost the distribution of soap market to Amin. In order to besmear Amin’s reputation in front of the ruler, Akvan devises a heinous scheme against the ruler’s life, but in the end, he himself is trapped in the conspiracy and dishonest plot he employs to gain more profit and to defeat Amin.
Plot
Amin and Akvan develop their business with the help from the ruler of the town. But Akvan’s jealousy towards Amin leads him to sabotage and revenge. During his scheme, the ruler is hurt and Amin is punished. Can Amin survive the predicament?
DIRECTOR
Zohal Razavi was born in 1975, Iran B.A. in animation direction at IRIB TV Collage. She continued her work to make TV series and short musical animations for Saba animation studio for a while. At the present she is working as Writer, producer and Animation Director in her privet studio Raora Cottage.
Filmography
1. Production of the short film Happy Birthday, winner of golden trophy for the best animated film from Tehran Animation International Festival
2. Directing the short animation Grandfather’s Treasure,2002
3. Founder of animation production studio (Ravara Animation Hut), 2004
4. Writer and director of the serial Crows (13 episodes) for Saba Company, screened in Stuttgart, Germany, Argentine, and Italy Festivals, and screened in Review of the Best Iranian Animation in Australia Cinematheque,2004-2007
5. Member of Selection Board in 6th Tehran Animation Festival,2008
6. Production of the 6-episode musical serial Azure Days,2009
7. Writer and director of 26-episode serial Raspberry Field, accepted in Hyderabad Festival, India,2013
8. Producer and director of the short film Maybe I’m not Alive,2013
9. Producer, writer, and Director of animation film Amin and Akvan,2016
FESTIVALS
1-Hanui Film Festival , Vietnam November 2018
2-IFF JUNIORFEST 2018 ,November Czech Republic
3--Kolkata Children's Film Festival , India 2019
Director's note
This film is a tribute to my childhood. My childhood and adolescence hobby was to read books and imagining and accompanying the characters of the story. The books in our childhood time lacked much diversity. The books Good Stories for Good Children were the most available series of storybooks for our generation. We read the books hundreds of times over years with joy. When I grew up, I only remembered one or two stories from the series and I felt I had enjoyed them greatly at that time. Years have passed and now I am a filmmaker for the young generation. So I decided to portray one of the stories with elements from today’s life in memory of my childhood and share my feeling of that time with today’s children and adolescents. I hope they will enjoy it like I did.
Zohal Razavi was born in 1975, Iran B.A. in animation direction at IRIB TV Collage. She continued her work to make TV series and short musical animations for Saba animation studio for a while. At the present she is working as Writer, producer and Animation Director in her privet studio Raora Cottage.
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