A man called Brian is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh

Mahmoud Shoolizadeh

Mahmoud Shoolizadeh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, with various awards including Best Film award of the audience for the fiction film Noora in 49th International Film Festival of Taormina in Italy in June 2003...

. This documentary is about a 55 year-old Briton called Brian Haw

Brian Haw

Brian William Haw was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy...

 who has left his home, his wife and seven children in the south of England and has come to London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 to stage a 24-hour sit-in opposite the Houses of Parliament for over seven years in protest against the invasion of Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 by the US and British military forces. In this film, he argues that because the war ends in deaths of thousands of people, it should stop.

Festival Participations

• Arizona International Film Festival in USA, April 2005,

• Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran,Iran 2005

• 2nd Festival of TV production of IRIB, Foreign Bureoux,in Tehran,Iran Prize winner for the best director, 2005,

Technical specifications and Film crew

A man called Brian

• Betacam SP, 40 mins, Documentary, Iran-England, 2005
• Script writer and director: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, with various awards including Best Film award of the audience for the fiction film Noora in 49th International Film Festival of Taormina in Italy in June 2003...
  
  
• Narrator: Rozina Behrooz
• Music by: Pouya Shoolizadeh
• Photographer and editor: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, with various awards including Best Film award of the audience for the fiction film Noora in 49th International Film Festival of Taormina in Italy in June 2003...
  
  
• Producer: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh
  Mahmoud Shoolizadeh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, with various awards including Best Film award of the audience for the fiction film Noora in 49th International Film Festival of Taormina in Italy in June 2003...
  
  ( I.R.I.B. )