Rafi Pitts

Rafi Pitts born 1967 is an Iranian film director Pitts was born in Mashad Iran Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran where he lived in a basement flat underneath a postproduction studio He came to England his father is English in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA Hons degree in Film and Photography His first short film In Exile 1991 was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival In the 90s Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax Jacques Doillon and JeanLuc Godard Educated in France and England Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and he was the first film director in exile to do so since the Revolution in 1979 His first feature Season Five 1997 was the first FrancoIranian coproduction since the Revolution In 2006 he was nominated for Golden Bear award of Berlin Film Festival for his film Its Winter His 2010 film The Hunter was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival His 2016 Film Soy Nero won the best film award at the 12th Bucharest International Film festival in April 2016