Zahra Dowlatabadi

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Zahra Dowlatabadi
Born (1962-09-14) September 14, 1962 (age 61)
Filmmaker, animator

Zahra Dowlatabadi (Persian: زهرا دولت آبادی; born September 14, 1962) is an Iranian-born American

filmmaker and film producer.[1][2][3]

Biography

Zahra Dowlatabadi received her master's degree at

UCLA’s Royce Hall
on Feb. 4th, 2012.

Dowlatabadi’s most recent live-action credit is as writer & director on a documentary short called Parthian (2016) and prior to that she was executive producer on the documentary titled Lady of Roses (2008) written, and produced and directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb.

Dowlatabadi partnered with Catherine Winder to write Producing Animation. Published by Focal Press in 2001 and translated in Chinese, and Korean, the 2nd edition of Producing Animation was released in Sept. 2011.

In 1996, Dowlatabadi first started as a production manager and was later promoted to associate producer on

Unicef
on the topic of Children’s Rights.

Prior to working at Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Dowlatabadi first served as co-producer and then producer on the

Universal Cartoon Studios for which she won an Annie award in 1996. She also assisted director Joe Johnston on The Pagemaster
.

In 1991 Dowlatabadi joined the feature animation team at

Hanna-Barbera Studios. She worked on Once Upon a Forest where she learned to navigate animation production in studios located in Spain, Argentina, Australia, Denmark and Taiwan
.

From animation to documentary production, Dowlatabadi was hired to work with the director

Peter Pan and the Pirates. Subsequent to that project, Dowlatabadi joined Disney Television Production as an associate producer on Goof Troop
.

Dowlatabadi entered the animation world when she joined the world-famous Japanese animation studio

Tokyo Movie Shinsha, serving as an art coordinator for 65 episodes of Bionic Six and then as the post-production coordinator for Visionaries. She was the production manager on the feature adaptation of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo working with Brian Froud, Corny Cole, Ken Anderson
and Ken Mundie.

References

  1. ^ "Iran Chamber Society: Iranian Visual Arts: Zahra Dowlatabadi". www.iranchamber.com.
  2. ^ Radulovic, Petrana (2021-05-24). "Quest for Camelot helped kill the animated musical formula". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  3. ^ "Art of Change-Making: Philanthropy at its Best -- Lady of the Roses". Payvand.com. September 20, 2010. Retrieved 2021-11-22.

External links

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