Email: Ali.Farhadipour@Carleton.Ca
EDUCATION
2015-2017 Master
of Arts in Film Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Completed course work in Film, Communication, Journalism and Linguistics
Research Focus: Audience and Reception Studies; Presentation Skills;
Critical Discourse Analysis.
2007-2009 Master of Arts in Theatre Studies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran.
Research Focus: Audience Studies.
1998-2002 B.A.
in Dramatic Arts, Azad University, Tehran.
Research Focus: Mythology; Iranian
Studies; Traditional Forms of Theatre in Iran; Structural Analysis and Morphology.
1993-1997 Diploma
in Arts, National TV Channel (Kamalolmolk), Tehran.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE
Audience&Reception
Studies; Presentation Skills; Critical Discourse Analysis; World&Iranian Mythology
and Philosophy; Imagination Studies; Naqqali (Traditional Iranian Dramatic
Story-performing).
LANGUAGES
English, Persian, Turkish.
CERTIFICATIONS
2019 Community Interpretation from
Cultural Interpretation Services for Our Communities (CISOC), Ottawa.
2019 CPR from the Canadian Red Cross, Toronto.
2015 Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) in Carleton University,
Ottawa.
2015 Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities (AODA) in Carleton
University, Ottawa.
2012 Canadian Culture from Immigration
and Citizenship Canada, Ottawa.
NOTABLE
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
2015-2019 Academia.edu website
Wrote
and published essays on Academia.edu website downloaded every
month by students and researchers who leave appreciative comments.
2016-2017 Workshop/Mini-course Present Like
Hollywood, Carleton University, Ottawa
Invented
and taught exceptional Workshop/Mini-course Present Like Hollywood on
how to use J. Campbell’s Mythic Structure of “The Hero’s Journey” along with cinematic
and theatrical techniques to do engaging and persuasive PowerPoint
presentations, considering PowerPoint slides as
cinematic frames and the presenter’s presentation as a multimedia solo-performance.
The workshop was acclaimed by participants.
2016 Canadian
Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Ottawa
Provided Social Media Strategy for Indigenizing the Academy Project
which was acknowledged by CAUT.
2015-2017 Carleton
University, Ottawa
Took interdisciplinary courses in Communication and Linguistics during
his Film Studies master's program in which received as high grades as A and +A.
2015 Film
Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
Received Scholarship for a master's in Film Studies.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2016-2017 Research
Assistant in Carleton University, Ottawa
Wrote
analytical notes while watching National Film Board of Canada (NFB)’s
films evaluating their qualities and providing academically relevant keywords
for, and critique on, them.
2012-2014 Researcher
in Comparative Cultural Studies, Ottawa
Directed
research to promote intercultural conversations with Parkwood Cultural
Studies Ottawa on the similarities, commonalities and differences between
Western, Iranian and Middle-Eastern cultures result of which was used to produce
episodic programs and shows for TV channels.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 Canadian
Stem School, Toronto
English Language Instructor.
2016-2017 Carleton
University, Ottawa.
Workshop/Mini-course
Present Like Hollywood, Carleton University, Ottawa
Invented
and taught exceptional Workshop/Mini-course Present Like Hollywood on
how to use J. Campbell’s Mythic Structure of “The Hero’s Journey” along with cinematic
and theatrical techniques to do engaging and persuasive PowerPoint
presentations, considering PowerPoint slides as
cinematic frames and the presenter’s presentation as a multimedia solo-performance.
The workshop was acclaimed by participants.
2015-2016 Carleton
University, Film Studies,
Ottawa
Teaching Assistant
Led
seminars and marked students’ essays and exam papers.
CONFERENCES
AND PANEL
DISCUSSIONS
Nov. 2016 San Francisco’s
State University, San Francisco
Gave lecture on his essay “Cache: Watching Yourself Being
Watched; The Roles of Camera’s Points of View and the Nature of Shots in the
Audience’s Possible Reading of Michael Haneke's Cache” in San
Francisco’s SFSU Cinema Studies Conference “Cinema of Indeterminacy.”
Sep. 2016 Carleton University’s School for Studies in Arts and Culture (SSAC), Ottawa
Gave lecture, titled “Ten Recommendments for Leading Successful
Presentations!,” and ran workshop on, how to be a successful Teaching Assistant through
effective PowerPoint presentations.
Feb 2016 Averting Violent Extremism,
Carleton University, Ottawa
Led group discussions, and provided suggestions, on how to avert
violent extremism using communication techniques, reception theories, cultural
studies, and arts.
NOTABLE ACADEMIC
ESSAYS
2015-2016 Carleton
University
“The Crucial Role of Imagination in Human Progress: Reasons
for Enrolling in a PhD Program in Cultural Mediations.”
“PowerPoint:
A Tree of Good and Evil; Identifying Theoretical Frameworks for Investigating
and Improving PowerPoint Presentations;” A Literature Review.
“A Critical Review of Reception Theories, Since Aristotle Until the 21st
Century’s Reception Theorists.”
“Teaching
the Teacher; A ‘Discourse Analysis’ of Dave’s Presentation of His Salespreneur System
in the Shark Tank TV Show.”
“The
Text or The Reader? Identifying Four Differentiated Moments of Reading,
Perception, Interpretation, and Response in The Reader’s Interaction with The
Text.”
“Love Your Enemies! Pros of Accepting the Dominance
of English and Cons of Re-vitalizing Non-English Languages.”
“Technological
Progress: Growth or Decline? Investigating Slack and Wise' Concepts of Material
Prosperity and Moral and Spiritual Growth in the movie Alphaville.”
“Defects of, and Ways to Improve,
Communication Methods of Marketing in One World Film Festival.”
“Pure
Impure Cinema; The Role of Inter-mediality and Theatricality in Creating
Distancing Effect in Singin’ in the Rain.”
“The Exorbitant Darkness of Bodies, or How to
Look at Antiheroes: Audiences’ Identification and Dis-identification with
On-screen Bodies in Iron Man 3 Using Lacan’s Mirror Stage, Metz’s
Cinematic Identification, and Freud’s Oedipus Complex.”
COMMITTEES
2019 Naqqali Festival,
Dubai, UAE.
One of
the four judges of naqqali performances.
JOURNALISM
2019 Simorgh Magazine, Ottawa
Wrote
articles on Mythology, Literature and Culture.
2019 IranStar
Magazine, Toronto
Wrote articles on
Mythology, Literature and Culture.
2019 Shahrvand (Citizen) Magazine,
Toronto
Provided interviews and wrote articles on Iranian Literature, culture
and mythology particularly on the mistakes in Iranian Studies.
2017 British Arts
Council, London, England
Translated theatre critiques
and analytical articles on the Iranian theatre and arts from Persian into
English for British Arts Council website.
2009-2012 Tehran Art Centre and most
popular newspapers, magazines and websites such as Iran, Kargozaran,
Emtiaz, Monthly Magazine of Children’s Books, Hamshahri-e Mahalle, Kheradname
Hamshahri, and Jadidonline website.
Wrote
critiques on stage performances, movies and books; and wrote research article
series on arts and mythology including Indo-European, Middle-Eastern and Iranian
Mythology and Literature (particularly Mithraism, Zoroastrianism and Sufism).
PUBLICATIONS
2009 “The Mythical
Elements of Shakespeare’s Play Henry the Fifth,” which was first presented
in the Tarbiat Modares University’s Research Seminar on “War and Dramatic Arts”
and then was published in the book The Lost Note (Hossein Mosafer, and Mohsen Babai, eds, Tehran: Iran Theatre, 2009).
NOTABLE ARTISTIC WORKS
1997-2019 Naqqali
Centre, Tehran, Iran; Rome, Italy; Ankara, Istanbul,
Isparta, Turkey; Ottawa, Toronto, Canada; Berlin, Germany; London, England;
Dallas, San Francisco, US.
Co-founded Naqqali Centre with which did research, gave lectures,
ran workshops, taught and produced theatre and naqqali performances as well as
tele-theatre and TV programs about history, cultures, human rights and social
issues.
2017 Phoenix
Cultural Centre, Toronto
Created literary, graphic, and video content as handouts, PowerPoint
presentations, and commercials/Infomercials.
2016 One World
Film Festival, Ottawa
Received Excellent for Internship in which
collected and catalogued information about Human Rights’ One World Film
Festival; created infomercial; and recommended content for the festival’s
website and social media to target the areas of interest of partners, sponsors
and funders.
NOTABLE THEATRE PERFORMANCES: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL STAGES
2019 Aga
Khan Museum, Toronto
Bijan
and Manijeh: A Love Story based on Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings.
Wrote,
directed and acted in the bilingual English-Persian Theatre-Naqqali
performance, which was acclaimed by the museum's Performing Arts Department and
by the international audience.
2019 “Tirgan” International Arts
Festival, Toronto
Jamshid
and Nowrooz
Wrote,
directed and acted in the Theatre-Naqqali performance titled Jamshid and
Nowrooz, which was acclaimed by the international audience.
2018 “Tirgan” International Arts Festival, Toronto
Zol
and Simorgh
Wrote,
directed and acted in the ‘Theatre-Naqqali-Siahbazi’ performance Zol and Simorgh
(the mythical Iranian bird/totem), which was the first to mix these forms of
performances in the Iranian theatre history, and was acclaimed by the
international audience.
2012 “Arda Kanpolat” International
Theatre Festival, Isparta, Turkey.
Sohrab
& Gordafarid: Love Among Enemies
Wrote
and directed the trilingual performance (English, Persian, Turkish) which was
acclaimed by the international audience.
2009 “Salamat” Theatre
Festival, Ray, Iran.
Witnesses’
Stand
Wrote
and directed the performance which was awarded the best theatre performance,
best director, one best actor and four best supporting actors.
2008 “Arrivano Dal Mare” International
Theatre Festival, Rome, Italy
300
Spartans: A Persian Narrative!
Wrote
and directed the performance.
2000 “Tehran” Provincial Theatre
Festival,
Tehran, Iran.
Arash
the Archer, playwright: Bahram Beyzaie
Director’s
assistant, dramaturg, and actor’s director. The main actor of Arash was
awarded the best actor and the director was awarded the second best director.
1999 “Tehran”
Provincial Theatre Festival, Tehran, Iran.
Khatoon
(The Lady) adopted from Bahram Beyzaie’s Parde-ye Neyee
(The Straw Curtain)
Director’s
assistant, dramaturg, and actor’s director.
1997-2009 Tehran and other cities, Iran
Wrote,
directed, produced and acted in more than 200 theatre and naqqali performances
on the streets and stages depicting historical and social issues inspired by
the Iranian traditional theatrical forms such as Naqqali (traditional Iranian
solo-performance), Siah-bazi/Takht-e Howzi (traditional Iranian comedy similar
to the Italian Commedia dell’arte), and Ta’zieh (Iranian traditional
tragedy/passion theatre).
TV
PRODUCTIONS
2014 Channel-7 TV
Channel, Dallas, USA; Ottawa, Canada
Wrote,
directed, and edited tele-theatre episodes for children and adults about
historical figures.
2012-2014 BCRG Film Production, Ottawa,
Canada
Wrote,
directed, and edited M's Adventures, 33 educational episodes for
children and adults about historical figures and peace between people from
different cultures and religions.
2011-2012 SAT-7 PARS TV Channel,
Nicosia, Cyprus; Istanbul, Turkey
Wrote
and directed tele-theatre titled Naqqal Aunti-Neda and Mubarak in
the form of Naqqali (traditional Iranian story-performing) and Takht-e Howzi (traditional
Iranian comedy), 40 episodes for children and adults about historical
figures.
AWARDS IN INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL THEATRE FESTIVALS
1997-2012 Best director, best theatre performance,
best playwright, best actor, and most interesting performance by international
audiences in Arda Kanpolat, Tehran, Salamt, and Ray Festivals.
TV INTERVIEWS
2010-2012 Pars TV channel
Gave numerous
interviews about supporting human rights through his theatre&film
production group Naqqali Centre.
2010 Voice of America (VOA)
TV channel
Gave
interview about his theatre&film production group Naqqali Centre.
2010 Deutsche Welle Radio
Gave
interview about his research “The History of Female Narrators/Solo-performers
in Iran, from Antiquity Until Today” and his group Naqqali Centre.
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
2019 Canadian Election,
Ottawa
Campaign
advisor, Canvasser and Candidate’s Representative in vote counting.
2019 Zoroastrian Society of
Ontario (ZSO), Toronto
Gave
lectures, performed theatre performances, and volunteered for events and
artistic activities.
2019 Cyrus Foundation,
Toronto
Gave
lectures, performed theatre performances, and volunteered for events and
artistic activities.
2017-2019 Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario
Gave
lectures, performed theatre performances, and volunteered for events and
artistic activities.
2014 Adult High School,
Ottawa
English
instructor for new-comers and beginners.
2012-2014 Parkwood Cultural Studies, Ottawa
Volunteered
for social work, events and artistic activities.
