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When co-directors Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi embarked on Tatami, about a female Iranian judo player who challenges her country's strict authoritarian rule, they found renewed focus - and emotion - after widespread anti-government protests erupted in Iran: 'We just felt this sudden urgency of telling the story' The death of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 would shake Iran to its core. The film, receiving its world premiere in Venice's Orizzonti (Horizons) competition on Sept. 1, almost a year to the day from Amini's death, was already heavy with poignancy and historic weight as the first feature to be co-directed by an Israeli, Guy Nattiv, and an Iranian, Zar Amir Ebrahimi - nationalities that aren't supposed to interact with each other, as it's literally criminalized in Iran, let alone make art together. For Ebrahimi, who had begun her creative career making short films in Iran and had been slowly working toward her feature debut behind the camera, it was a \"beautiful offer.\"

The Movie By Laura Rozen | Politico July 22, 2010 An Iranian production company has hired scriptwriters to develop a film about Shahram Amiri, the Iranian scientist who turned up at Iran's interest section in Washington last week claiming he'd been kidnapped and wanted to return to Iran. Amirhossein Ashtiyanipour, a director at an Iranian production company called Sima Film, told Agence-France Presse that a \"young group of movie school graduates\" had been hired to write the script.

Tehran, 28 November: Today Thursday, Amir Farshad Ebrahimi [a defendant in the so-called tape fabricators' case. During the case, Mohsen Rahami and Shirin Ebadi were charged, along with Ebrahimi, with distorting the facts about the events that occurred at the [Tehran] University dormitory attack in 1999 and acting against national security.

He said [Amir Farshad Ebrahimi]'s telephone contacts with home have been discontinued as of 21/3/80 [11/6/01] and that: Following requests by me and other members of the family to visit our son, the head of the Evin Prison, Qotbi, informed us that Amir Farshad had been moved to another place, i.e. the Eshratabad's 59th Prison, which is run by one of the military establishments. However, the head of the 59th Prison has denied Amir Farshad Ebrahimi being in that compound.

Journalists have campaigned for better employment conditions and greater protection against the hazards of the trade for several years. Little or nothing has been done for them so far. Journalists are still not eligible for welfare benefits and pension after 20 years of service. The mandatory period is still 30 years. Political observers in our country are well aware of the contribution of the print media and journalists to the reform program and the Democratic Process. Without the print media, the Fifth Majlis elections, the May 1997 presidential elections and the 6th Majlis elections in March 2000 would not have been possible. It is a fact that the majority of the dailies in Iran are run by politically motivated individuals who are not professional journalists. But this should not prevent the rank and file from achieving job security, political immunity and legal integrity. After all, the editorial board does the actual work of publishing a newspaper, not the owners and the administration.

In an interview with a correspondent of the Iranian Students' News Agency, [Amir Farshad Ebrahimi]'s father said that his son had been kept in solitary confinement during the past week. He added: Last Sunday [14 January] Amir Farshad Ebrahimi was transferred to solitary confinement because of his continued hunger strike. We did not have any information about his conditions.

Tehran, 14 January: Relatives of Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, an accused person in the fake video cassette case, have announced in a letter to Majlis that they would go on political fasting and stage a sit-in in front of Majlis in protest at refusal to deal with complaints of Ebrahimi.

According to an ISNA [Iranian Students News Agency] report, in this letter [Amir Farshad Ebrahimi] has enumerated 21 instances of baseless allegations in his file. Moreover, he has threatened to begin a hunger strike from today, 20 Dey [9 January], should his complaints fall into deaf ears. Other instances of criticism raised by Ebrahimi against his case are imprisonment in the Towhid Detention Centre, solitary confinement for 126 days, court proceedings behind closed doors, propagation of lies via the radio-TV broadcasts and the Judiciary, banning any visits by his lawyers and the Majlis deputies and continuation of interrogations after the end of the court proceedings.

According to our correspondent, on the basis of a verdict issued by Bench 10 of the Tehran Province Appeals Court, [Amir Farshad Ebrahimi], as the first degree defendant and the main perpetrator in the video-tape fabrication case and disseminator of lies, was handed down a one-year discretionary prison term.

[Amir Farshad Ebrahimi], a former member of the Ansar-e Hezbollah, was involved in a fake video cassette case which allegedly contained his confessions prepared by two reformist lawyers, Mohsen Rahami and Shirin Ebadi. In his confessions which formed part of the transcript of the case, Ebrahimi divulged that Ansar members were told to disrupt public meetings, beat up reformist activists and assault former interior minister Abdollah Nuri, a popular reformist now serving a jail sentence on charges of inciting religious and political dissent.