Mahboubeh Honarian

Mahboubeh Honarian (Persian: محبوبه هنریان; born in 1962) is an Iranian-Canadian film director and film producer. She was awarded her MSc in engineering multimedia and BA in Humanities with a media and cultural studies bias in the United Kingdom. She has been working as a film producer and director on a broad range of documentary, feature film and short film films as well as TV series mainly focused on social issues such as war, homelessness, drug addiction, child abuse and refugees. The main concerns of her films are emphasized on women, children and youth. Honarian has been invited to serve on the jury of a number of film festivals, including the International Emmy Awards in New York from 2010 to 2017, ‘the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT), Canada, 2016/2017, the Documentary Voices, Pulling Focus festival in Dubai in 2008, and the Great 11th Festival of Iranian Cinema in Iran in 2007. She was invited as a guest filmmaker to various festivals including the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Germany in 2010, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival as a member of a discussion panel at Spotlight on Iran in Canada in 2008 and at the GZ DOC film festival on International Producer's Day in China in 2008, 2012 and 2013. She has been a member of Program Supervisory Board for the Conference of Visual Representations of Iran, University of St-Andrews, Scotland, in 2008 and a member of Scientific Board for the First Symposium on Visual Anthropology of Iran, Anthropology Society of Iran, University of Tehran in 2007. Honarian has been the president of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association for four years (2004–2008) and as an Information/Documentation officer for the United Nations Development Programme after the disastrous 2003 Bam earthquake. 'Documentary From Another Perspective', TV Series (public's opinion towards the influence of a documentary film), (26 episodes, Documentary films with different subjects/issues), 2011-2013 'Hidden In Fog', TV Series (People and life in London), (5 parts), UK.