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FootWriting

Rahim is a 25-year-old villager who’s lost his hands due to an electrocution incident in childhood. With a strong will, he’s using his feet instead to take care of his daily life as well as creating extraordinary miniatures. He expresses himself through the miniatures. His life is a constant fight for survival.

  • Saadatali Saeidpoor
    Director
  • Saadatali Saeidpoor
    Writer
  • Mohsen Tabatabaeipoor
    Producer
  • Rahim Azimi
    Key Cast
  • Mehdi Nateghzadeh
    Director of Photography
  • Hassan Salmani
    Sound Recordist
  • Ramiz Gholiev
    Music
  • Amir Golpoor Ghayoor
    Sound Editing and Mixing
  • Barge Sabz Cinema Company
    Production Company
  • Alireza Nezarati
    Production Manager
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Television
  • Genres:
    Interview, autobiography
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 23, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    August 30, 2017
    Asian Premiere
    nominated for best film on disability issues
  • international Parvaz film festival
    Tehran
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    December 2, 2017
    national premiere
    Badge of Honor Prize
Distribution Information
  • Hosein Nazarpour
    Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Saadatali Saeidpoor

Biography:
Bachelor degree in Cinema Directing - Start of filmmaking since the year 1986- Designer, Writer, researcher and director of more than 50 Television Documentary movies and 8 Documentary TV Series - cooperation with Iran National Television (IRIB), HozeHonari Center, The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), Iranian Youth cinema Society (IYCS) & Private Suppliers. Teaching Filmmaking in educational institutions, Member of Iranian Cinema Documentation Society & Iranian Filmmakers Society (KhanehCinema) . Get more than thirty national & international Awards & Honors for Documentary Fillmaking.
Filmography
FootWritnig – Documentary – 30 min – 2017
Captain Soleyman– Documentary – 50 min – 2015
Fly to infinity– Documentary – 60 min – 2015
Old baths, legacy of the ancestors (3 Episodes) – Documentary – 75 min – 2011
Looking for a green medicine (4 Episodes) – Documentary – 140 min – 2011
Shahriar of Iran (26 Episodes) – Documentary – 260 min – 2010
Kandojan – Documentary – 12 min – 2010
Pottery– Documentary – 260 min – 2010
Butterflies of prayer (6 Episodes) – Documentary – 130 min – 2009
Firoozeh Islam– Documentary – 10min – 2009
Azerbaijan, The Land of Beauty (15 Episodes) – Documentary – 375 min – 2008
Water and mirror– Documentary – 10 min – 2008
The Holy Light– Documentary – 10 min – 2007
Symphony faces of Simin – Documentary – 10 min – 2006
The old secret – Documentary – 19 min – 2004
Canvas of the tenth day (6 Episodes) – Documentary – 120 min – 2003
Coin, narrated history – Documentary – 15 min – 1993

Awards:
Best Short Documentary Award of the 42nd edition of the Ekotopfilm in Czech Republic for “Captain Soleyman”-2015
Best Documentary Award of the Muslim Nations in 25th Tehran Short Film Festival for (Iran) “The Holy Light” – 2008
Best Documentary Award of 14th Rouyesh Film Festival (Iran) for “The Holy Light” – 2008
Best Documentary Award of Iranian Youth cinema Society Festival in Rasht (Iran) for “Coin, narrated history” – 1994

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Director Statement

FootWriting is related to the capabilities of a Young artist with a physical disability. A person who has suffered from an accident during childhood and has been living without hands for many years. A youth who, with everyday challenges, paints his inner feelings with artistic expression. He lives with passion, and romance within his mother and beloved fiancé. This life is commendable. The subject of the film on behalf of Mr. Tabatabaei Pour and Professor Moshiri was suggested to me to carry out the necessary research. In the first encounter with this person and seeing him, questions arose in my mind. How is possible to live without hands? How can he eat? How does He painting with his leg? How does he baths and clean? How does him buy the gadgets and carry them? And hundreds of questions like this. His life was interesting for me. To achieve these ambiguities and mental disengagement about Rahim Azimi (the personality of the film), I started the necessary research, production of “Footwring” movie was started.