Ahmad Faruqi
Paris, France
Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar was born in Paris in 1938. He studied cinema in France and the United States. He worked for Fox in London for more than year as a script reader. He then went to Iran to work in the Ministry of Art & Culture as a filmmaker. His first documentary was Tehran Today, but it was his second one, the more complex Dawn of the Capricorn, told from the point of a view of a restless young boy, that gained him significant recognition. He died in Paris in 1998.
