Mehdi Ghorbanpour

Mehdi Ghorbanpour

Mehdi Ghorbanpour is born in 1979 in Babol in northern Iran. He started his career as filmmaker in 1992. In early 2000, he established the Varesh International Film Festival and worked as the executive director of festival.

He is now in charge of public relations of ISFA (Iranian Short Film Association). Also he was the director of Film & Still Photograph Section of the 1st International Festival of Common Heritage.

He has made 20 short and documentary films as a director and producer which have been participated and awarded in various local and international festivals. Some of his works are End of Game (1995), Issa of Rain (2001), By Sky (2001), Where There is Nobody (2002).

Resource: the Eight Asiatica Film Mediale 2007

I am not Nuclear Energy, 我不是核能

片名：我不是核能（I Am Not Nuclear Energy）

導演：眉賀迪．勾班剖（Mehdi Ghorbanpour）

影片簡介：

藍薩（Ramsar）鎮的輻射指數超出正常水準，在鎮議會選舉期間引起激烈的辯論。

哈森．普曼蘇里（Hassan Poormansuri）從教育部退休，是藍薩鎮土生土長的居民。他發現從小長大的鎮已經受到核污染，對鎮民的身體健康有所損害。有些婦女感到身體沈重，有的村落十個人竟有八個人得了癌症。

有的鎮民認為提起核污染的問題只會造成地價跌落，觀光事業衰退，對藍薩鎮的發展沒有好處。官員認為哈森的論述並沒有科學證據支持。另一位參選人查佛什．薩尼（Chavoshi Sani）認為核能是嚇唬美國人的，微量的輻射還可以治療癌症。