Background
Tamjidi was born in Tehran and graduated with a degree in film editing from seda v sima university.
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Hamid Tamjidi
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Career
He has four children - Larisa, Kasra, Nakisa, and Parsa. He made his first film The Burnt Twigs as part of his thesis. Then he was hired by the Iran television network as the official film editors
Two years later he started to work as writer and director for the same organization.
At that time he established his film company KASRAFILM and produced and directed several more films. In total, he made six films and and more than fifty documentaries.
The he wrote and directed are: The Map (1986) Agate (1988) Learning for Living (1991) Wages of Fear (1992) Playing with Death (1995) Tell Him That I love Him (1999). The feature films that he wrote directed and produced: The Burn t Twigs (1977) The Mirage (1986) The Rose (1989) Dear Wednesday (1992) Playing with Death (1995) Endless night (1999).
His last movie "The Endless Night" was banned for public screening and he couldn"t continue his work for years.
In 2006 he immigrated to Canada and now lives in New Brunswick. In 2007 he wrote his first English screenplay Saffron.
Achievements
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One of his first documentaries Doragh Pond won several awards and a year later he began his first television series Agate based on his own screenplay. In 1987 his short documentary Call of the pond won the jury"s special award at the Fajr international film Festival. Among Tamjidi"s most popular films were the documentary films Tree (1982), Hur "e Doragh (1983 & winner for best documentary at the third Fajr international film festival) Call of the Pond (1986 winner of the jury"s special award at the sixth Fajr international film festival).
