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Spanish Film Critic Carlos Heredero to Hold Workshop in Tehran

Spanish film critic, journalist, cinema historian and writer Carlos F. Heredero has been invited by the Iranian National School of Cinema to hold a workshop on film studies.

The invitation is part of a program INSC which is planning for holding an educational course in the presence of distinguished national and International critics and cineastes. The subjects of the course include cinema studies, namely theory, analysis and critique. 

Details of the course, date, duration, and names of teachers have not been announced. According to the Persian website Mehr News Agency, those interested can contact the INSC public relations office for more information. The registration deadline is June 17.

Carlos Heredero, 69, is mostly known for screenwriting the documentaries “Hitchcock: the Fiction Without Limits”, “Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote”, and the TV movie “Huston and Joyce: Dialogues With the Dead”, all directed by the Spanish film director, producer and editor Carlos Rodríguez. 

Since 2007 Heredero directs the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (former Cahiers du cinema Spain). He is professor of general history of cinema and history of Spanish cinema at the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid since 1998. 

He was one of the main critics of “Diario 16”, a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Madrid, Spain, between 1976 and 2001 for fourteen years and was a regular contributor to the magazines “Cinemanía” and “Nosferatu”.