Ali Limonadi

Ali Limonadi (Persian: علی لیمونادی) is a film director, journalist and founder of IRTV (Persian:تلویزیون ایرانیان) in Los Angeles.

Ali Limonadi
IRTV's Ali Limonadi interviews former prime minister of Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris 1984
Ali Limonadi (Right) with the Persian poets Simin Behbahani and Nader Naderpour, after an interview in 1999.

Life and career before 1979

Ali Limonadi was born in Tehran, after high school he moved to Germany and from 1962 till 1968 he studied Film Directing and Cinematography at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin (Universitat der Kunst HFBK Berlin). "Das Abonnement" is one of his films which was screened in 1967 on that time.[1]

Post-1979 career

In April 1979 Limonadi moved to the United States and in 1981 he launched the first Persian TV station outside Iran named "IR TV" (Iranian Television تلويزيون ايرانيان).[2] In an interview Limonadi said: "At that time, we thought we would return to Iran after six months. We thought the situation would settle and that people could resume their lives back home. Some of us did not even fully unpack our bags." [3]

Ali Limonadi regularly appears on US-based Persian media such as Voice of America's Persian Television.[4]

Films
  • Der Deutsche, 1966
  • Das Abonnement, 1967

Book

- One hundred years of struggle towards democracy in Iran (Ali Limonadi's interviews with politicians); Edited by Qasem Beykzadeh. Iranian Archive and Research Foundation, Los Angeles, 2013. (in Persian) [5]

See also

Notes
  1. O'Brien, M. "Post-wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent". Google Books. Retrieved 4 Feb 2017.
  2. Akbarzadeh, P. "An Interview with Ali Limonadi". Radio Zamaneh. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  3. Bagherpour, A. "The Iranian Diaspora in America". PBS. Retrieved 12 Sep 2010.
  4. "Persian tv weekly highlights 4/9". VOA. Retrieved 9 Apr 2007.
  5. "Talāsh-i ṣad sālah-i millat-i Īrān". LOC. Retrieved 4 Feb 2017.

References
  • Nafici, Hamid. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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