Zaven Ghokasian

Born 27 April 1950 in Isfahan, Iran

Died 20 February 2015 (aged 64)

Filmmaker, critic, researcher, and cinema teacher. He began his filmmaking career as an amateur filmmaker with his friends in Isfahan. He soon joined the Cinema-ye Azad and founded the Cinema-ye Azad Isfahan in 1971 and continued his activities as a filmmaker and head of this office. After the Islamic Revolution, in addition to filmmaking, he devoted a large part of his time to researching the history of Iranian cinema and teaching cinema.