Kianmehr Shabani, cultural activist, film critic and experimental filmmaker, born in 2004, is from Sari. He started his artistic activity in high school by criticizing music and film. After going through the three stages of city, province and country, his first reviews were able to receive the award of "Best Film Review", "Best Music Review" and "Best Cultural Art Review" in the cultural and artistic festival "Hope for Tomorrow". After a year, in addition to criticizing art works, Shabani started making experimental films and his first short film It was made with the name "Taxi and a little waste". His first short film, participating in 118 international festivals, became one of the most proud works of art in Mazandaran province and even in the country. By continuing his series of cultural and artistic activities, he became one of the most successful activists and young cultural cinematographers of the country. He is present as a movie critic in the artistic cultural group "Kama". Also, in the first season of the "Silver Frame" artistic program, he worked as the main critic in the General Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Mazandaran Province. In 1402, he was chosen as the best young art cultural critic of the country for the fourth time in a row. He also appeared as a special critic of the 40th Tehran International Short Film Festival under the supervision of the cultural magazine "Dozistgah". In the summer of this year, he released his second short film called "Zandagi" in Kermanshah. This short film, which is considered a work of agitation, has had three successful screenings in Sari and now it has been screened in nineteen prestigious international festivals, including the New York Festival, Indiefest Spain, Ibadan Nigeria, Animafix Italy, AMK Georgia and... Now in 2024, He makes his third short Film On VIDEO ART Category. His Video Art name is “Grandmother And Sea”
