TEHRAN – A number of Iranian cineastes will be attending the CIFEJ General Assembly running in Beijing, China from May 6 to 10.
CIFEJ (the Centre International du Film pours l'Enfance et la Jeuneusse) Secretary General Mohsen Chiniforushan, CIFEJ Executive Director Elham Shirvani, filmmakers Rasul Sadr-Ameli and Puran Derakhshandeh, and film producers Ali Mo’allem and Fereshteh Taerpur are the Iranian attendees.
Two seminars entitled “How to Make Films for Children” and “How to Train Children to Watch Films” have been arranged for the members and the participants, Chiniforushan told the Persian service of ISNA on Friday.
Taerpur is scheduled to deliver a speech in one of the seminars, he added.
The new president and new members for the board of directors will also be appointed during this meeting, he said.
Chiniforushan also remarked that in the last meeting held at CIFEJ headquarters in Tehran, the Iranian members of CIFEJ decided to introduce Mo’allem as the new candidate for the CIFEJ board of directors.
China and Poland are also offering two new candidates for the position of CIFEJ president.
The CIFEJ headquarters was transferred to Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) in 2009, during the years Chiniforushan was serving as the IIDCYA director.
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