Producer

CASPIAN EVENTS

mahshidzamani@caspianevent.ae

Caspian Events is an event management consultancy and promotion organization, working with local and international clients to bring fine arts and cultural events to the United Arab Emirates. It facilitates programs at government-related and private arts centers. Caspian Events is based in Sharjah, UAE.

Mahshid Zamani

Mahshid Zamani, CEO of Caspian Events, is Managing Director of “Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus.” She brings experience in theatre management and film criticism to her executive role with this new initiative.

Ms. Zamani began her career as a film critic in 1990, with an A.S.S. in Film and Cinematography from the Tehran Cinema Institute. Since then she has worked with major film magazines in Iran and for the Persian section of BBC Radio and BBC.com.

As a film critic focused on women's issues, Ms. Zamani supervised a special 1996 issue of the magazine World of Pictures devoted to "Women and Cinema." This has become a reference tool for students doing research in the field. In 1997 Ms. Zamani coordinated an international seminar in Tehran on the "Image of Women in Contemporary Cinema." Both Iranian and international film media praised the seminar. She also published an English-to-Farsi translation of Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face.

 

Ms. Zamani served as an editor for the International Film Guide (2001) and International Film Encyclopedia (2003). She also wrote numerous film reviews for influential Iranian movie magazines including Film Magazine and Film International.

An international film entrepreneur, Mahshid Zamani managed the “Mesa Community College International Film Festival” in Arizona in 2004. She was a commentator of Iranian films for NITV in Los Angeles.

She was Theatre Manager for the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC) for two years. In that position Ms. Zamani organized and programmed more than 100 international events in DUCTAC’s several venues, including the 543-seat multi-purpose “Centrepoint Theatre.”

Today she is founder and executive producer of Caspian Events, an event management consultancy and promoter working with local and international clients. Caspian Events facilitates programs at government-related and private arts centers.

Ms. Zamani has a B.S. in Food Industrial Engineering from Azad University in Tehran. She lives in Sharjah with her husband and two daughters.


Nahid Emami, was born in Iran. She moved to Dubai in 2004 and started her career as a journalist and PR in media city in Eastern Woman magazine. In march 2008 she combined her nursing education with event PR skill and facilitated an international medical seminar in Crown plaza Hotel, Dubai festival city , called IACC ( Iran-Arab cardiology congress). In 2008 she joined the Ava magazine as an editor. For the last two years she has been working as a back vocal in commercials and advertisements. Today she is working with the Caspian-Event as a production manager.



Samaneh Salehi Moghadam recived her diploma in graphic design in 2001 and immediately perused Graphic design, photography, fabric painting , drawing professionally.

Exhibitions:
Group watercolor painting exhibition Tehran march 2008
Group watercolor painting exhibition Tehran may 2008

Mohsen Ghaffari started as a graphic designer in 1997. He established his own company "Samsa Graphic" in 2003. He has designed for many different companies and art exhibitions during his career in Iran. He has  worked in many projects as an art director.

Mohsen has been passioant about music too and has been involved in music industry since 2005.

He moved to UAE in 2006 to study sound engineering and has received his BA in sound production in 2010. Currently he is studying digital filming in SAE institute.

Samaneh and Mohsen met each other in “Samsa Graphic” have teamed up work  since 2003.