Alex Afshar

"Alex Afshar is an independent movie director, living in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was born 1985. He started his movie career in 2005. Since then he has directed ten short films and two music videos, and has been involved in many other movie projects as lighting supervisor, cameraman and editor. In 2007 he got an award for his second short film "The beautiful flower" at his college for best film production.Recently he received an AWARD OF MERIT at The IndieFEST Film Awards 2015 for the short film "The Living Forest" in the US. Alex has made movies in different genres and styles. He has made poetic drama, comedy, thriller, mystery and criminal short films. Nonetheless, his main focus is in poetic and feel-good movies, just like his awarded one. In the year 2010 he was a cooperator in arranging an exhibition of the film history's greatest cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, for the first time in Gothenburg and Scandinavia. In 2012 he started an association called "Film För Fred" (Movie for Peace) together with other young filmmakers in Gothenburg. They arranged an international film festival for independent filmmakers around the world. They called their festival "Gothenburg Indie Film Fest" and screened 65 movies from around the world during four days. Alex recently graduated the master program Curator for film and video at Gothenburg University (Valand Academy) in 2015."