{"id":23,"date":"2019-06-01T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityfilm.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2019-10-11T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:16:16","slug":"about-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.humanityfilm.com\/index.php\/about-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUNDER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the\nmain reasons of starting this institute, by the founder and manager, was his\nconcern about humanity. Abedin Mahdavi is an Iranian photo journalist and\ndirector, active in the field of human rights particularly children rights, war\nchildren and crisis children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abedin Mahdavi<\/strong>, leader and founder of Holy Children Institute, used to be considered crazy by the public because of his thoughts, ideas and activities. This crazy man spent two years of his youth with no salary in Afghanistan. He spent his little savings collecting children paintings, taking photos and filming them. People, who called him crazy and believed that he was wasting his time, were right. At that time, in the worst moments of war and kidnaps, the bad situation of health and treatment, shortage of safe water and food in Afghanistan, no journalist or photographer could survive without supports. Even the ones who were supported and paid could not stay there more than a month so he was definitely crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as Abedin\nMahdavi continued his activities in Pakistan, Iraq and African countries, his\nactivities and he raised a question in minds of the ones who called him crazy during\n2002 to 2004. Although he was not granted permission to continue his art in his\nown country, he preserved his efforts in art for humanity internationally.\nToday, the ones who called him crazy have joined the art group of Holy Children\nInstitute and they are trying alongside with him to help war children all\naround the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now they are: Volunteer Artists for Humanity!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abedin\nMahdavi is for sure one of international artists working for humanity and human\nrights but in near future, we might find him an international artistic\nactivities theorist. Of course, due to lack of financial support on his group,\nAbedin Mahdavi and his group are unknown in many countries, but it will not\ntake a long time that artists from all over the world join his group because of\nhis deep beliefs and soon these beliefs will spread over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you\nintend to work for humanity, you should wholly dedicate yourself. It means not\nto think of the result. It means not to think if anyone encourages you, or will\nI be awarded, or even if anyone would hand you a glass of water to save your\nlife! You shouldn\u2019t think of being beaten or insulted or imprisoned. You should\nalways smile and keep your throat ready to shout! All these things might\nprobably happen but you shouldn\u2019t think of them! You should think about the\nworld, you should think about the ground you are walking on. And in absolute\ncalm, you should think about your future while a little child who has no idea\nabout his or her future, on another side of this planet is having his future\nended, being targeted by a soldier!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\nshould courageously use kindness and affection, and also meanings of the words\nlove and friendship and pure human characteristics to stand against the muzzle\nof that soldier\u2019s gun and smile to him. Maybe he has sunglasses as dark as all\nthe darkness of the world; you should take them off to let the soldier see the\nchild\u2019s smile so when the soldier left army AWOL his first memory for his love\nwould be the story of the child\u2019s smile. On that day you have your award and\nyou can drink your coffee in peace!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After starting the international Holy Children Institute in 2001 and doing\nvarious artistic and cultural activities in many wars different countries he\nfaced many obstacles working on his film projects. He usually has to produce\nhis films using his own savings or donations and in worst situations of\nproduction. After a lot of arguments with the Iranian government in recent\nyears and after prohibition on the production of his last film which had a\nhumanitarian theme and it was about war children in Iraq, Abedin started his\nsecond artistic idea; Humanity Film Institute<\/em><\/strong> with an\ninternational viewpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not only in my country that opposition and stopping\nfrom artistic and philanthropic activities on human rights happen. This happens\nin many countries, I came to know it when I met friends and artists from all\naround the world. They faced the same obstacles as I did; the only difference\nwas about the level of political pressure. Ahmad was a friend of mine who\nhelped me a lot with my documentary film in Somalia. When I read about his\nmurder by AL Qaeda on my email, I remembered all my memories with him and\ndecided to step in this path and start my plan anyhow, even with no help from\nany organization!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came to the conclusion that I need to found an\ninternational institute like a social system so that artists help other artists\nworking on human rights and humanity. This institute will help artists and\nfilmmakers in their activities and helps them to show what they do!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abedin MAhdavi, Cinema Director & war children photographer, United Nation Office, Geneva <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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