Asghar Massombagi is a film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 who was born and raised in Tehran

Tehran

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. He immigrated to Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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 in 1986. He graduated from Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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 with two majors in film and computer sciences. He has produced three short films, Feel Like Chicken Tonight, The Miracle and Rose. He has won four awards and one nomination. He is most noted for the successful film Khaled

Khaled (2001 film)

Khaled is a 2001 film directed by Asghar Massombagi. Khaled is the story of a ten year old boy who tries to conceal the death of his mother...

which won two awards.

Film

• 1998
  1998 in film
  -Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
  
   - Feel Like Chicken Tonight
• 1999
  1999 in film
  The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
  
   - The Miracle 
• 2001
  2001 in film
  The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
  
   - Khaled
  Khaled (2001 film)
  Khaled is a 2001 film directed by Asghar Massombagi. Khaled is the story of a ten year old boy who tries to conceal the death of his mother...
  
  
• 2005
  2005 in film
  - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
  
   - Rose

External links

• Asghar Massombagi at the Internet Movie Database
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• Asghar Massombagi at Mongrel Media