4th Annual Noor Film Festival

Awards Winners...

2011 Award Categories Best Story or Idea Diplomacy  Director: Jon Goldman

2011 Award Categories Best Animation Little Tale of Us Director: Ameneh Eslami

2011 Award Categories Audience Favorite Circumstance Director: Maryam Keshavarz

2011 Award Categories Best Actress Nikohl Boosheri Film: Circumstance 2011 Award Categories Best Actor Navid Negahban Film: Liberation

2011 Award Categories Best Short Film Diplomacy Director: Jon Goldman

2011 Award Categories Best Documentary American Coup Director: Joe Ayella

2011 Award Categories Best Director Maryam Keshavarz Film: Circumstance.

Ameneh Eslami's animated short film titled "Little Tale of Us" is a 5-minute surrealist piece influenced by the book "Recovery of Your Inner Child" by Lucia Cappachione. Its theme of releasing one's inner child to live a happier and more satisfying life has been able to resonate with audiences of all different backgrounds.

The short piece, which was written and directed by Eslami, has gone on to be screened all over the world and win numerous international awards, including the Jury Appreciation Tablet from the Tricky Women Film Festival in Vienna, Austria and the Diploma of Honor from the 6th Annual International Film Festival in Tehran, Iran, as well as being honored by the University of Art, Tehran as the #1 Masters Thesis for animation and psychology.

In addition to her career as an award winning animator, Mrs. Eslami also works as a graphic design specialist at Iranian owned Internet marketing company, Cyberset. As a senior graphic designer at Cyberset, Ameneh plays a direct role in creating beautiful websites to clients' specifications. This includes creating web banners, formatting photos, and designing web art from scratch.

Her educational background, which includes a BA in graphic design from Shahed University, Tehran and an MA in Animation from the University of Art, Tehran, gives her a unique upper hand in creating web pages that are vibrant, unique, and attractive. Ameneh's passion for the visual arts is also evident in her teaching students at the University of Applied Science in Tehran for 2 years. While "Little Tale of Us" was first finished in 2008, its relevancy is still ringing true today and will be one of the showcased films at the upcoming 4th Annual Noor Film Festival on August 7th. Cyberset is proud to have Ameneh Eslami as part of its team of individuals dedicated to high quality Internet marketing, website design, and IT services.

As a well established Internet marketing company for over 10 years, Cyberset has accrued a number of partnerships with various high profile entities, including radio 670 KIRN and Pierce College's KPCR. To learn more about Ameneh Eslami's bio, art profile and animations, please visit www.moonodesign.com

For Moono Life is meaningless now. She is desperate, impatient, latent and exhausted.

If you lose your way you won’t feel secure .If you don’t feel safe you won’t reach happiness. Moono is deeply sick and she feels a deep pain in her heart. She is thinking that death is a way for her to get rid of all her dream.

Dreams are the most ridiculous things in the world. You have to pay a lot to achieve them and when you achieve them the new one comes ahead. They are never-ending.

If she die she can totally connect to the darkness which is black same as her color. Same as her thought .Se wants to dissolve in her black. She doesn’t want to get any color.

Oh how difficult is living in a colorful world.

She should die soon .Who know the best way for that.

Oh Moono!

Why should you be such an enemy for yourself?

Why don’t you stop this dreadful ongoing conflict that you have inside? Why should you expect this much from yourself? Why don’t you believe in Moono? Nobody is going to believe you unless you do.
 Why do you doubt on every single thing in your life every single decision you gonna make?

Stop war! Be more precious  and kind to yourself.

Please!

Moono is thinking about her life style. To be a simple creative black designer with some knowledge in Photoshop, and traditional animation versus a knowledgeable computer master; ofcourse white one?

You may don’t understand her now as she even doesn’t understand herself.

Don’t worry! She hasn’t lost her mind just she is out of her mind for a while.

A home is somewhere you feel safe in. A home will set you boundaries which are caring. It will put limitations which cause less steps forward, less imagination. Living inside boundary and feel safe; or live outside limitation and struggling with all distraction and difficulties? Moono is so confused now a days .She wants to look up and at the same time feeling insecure have made her so fragile so week. I wish she can find her way soon.

Happy Birthday!Welcom to this black world.We can make it pink together.