Anne Démy-Geroe

Dr Anne Démy-Geroe has a strong background in Asia Pacific cinema. She currently lectures on Asia Pacific Cinema at Griffith Film School, is a Vice President of NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema, and a director of the Asia Pacific Screen Lab. As inaugural Artistic Director of the Brisbane International Film Festival until 2010, she built a solid reputation for its Asia Pacific programming. She was also an inaugural co-Director of the national Iranian Film Festival Australia from 2011 to 2017. Anne was awarded a PhD for her work on Iranian Cinema and her Routledge publication, Iranian National Cinema, was published in 2020. She produced the docu Imaginary Border (Alireza Ghanie, 2016), in competition at APSA. Anne is a past Council Member of the National Film and Sound Archive, for many years was a judge for Script on the Premier’s Literary Awards, has worked on numerous special film events over the years and continues to serve on international juries from Busan to Tehran. She also does the odd programming gig! In 2003 was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for services to the film industry.

Contributions

Fīlm-i Fākhir, the “Magnificent Productions,” or the “Islamic Blockbusters“ of Mahmūd Ahmadīnizhād’s Second Presidential Term

Figure 1: A scene from the Fajr Film Festival in Iran Background When Mahmūd Ahmadīnizhād returned for another term as…

The International Reception of Iranian Cinema

Introduction  Iranian cinema entered the European film festival scene in the 1960s.1Roy Armes, Third World Filmmaking and the West (Berkeley: University of…