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Ario Soltani

Director and producer

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

present Job: TV/video producer United Nation in Afghanistan, UNAMA

 

Director, screen writer and executive producer, documentary, Den Haag, June, 1995

The documentary video “far from home” Nominated for Dutch Film days

 

Director and executive producer, the short film “me and my fatherland” 1996,

Script and story board, produced by HOS, and broadcast at national TV channel, the hours of Wolf. VPRO

 

Director, writer and executive producer, the documentary G8 2003, Geneva, France and Austria

 

TV Director and cameraman, the television program “ Peyke dad” 2004

 

Item Director, for RNN7 “the expedition RNN7” 2005.

 

Director and cameraman 2003- 2010,

I worked for very diverse companies in Holland such as Digicam, RTL5, RTL4, Mtnl, NPS, een vandaag, Network, Peter Tettero Media BV and other European production companies such as world reporter media and Pars TV in Los Angeles, Spanish and French television. With much pleasure I can say that I was the cameraman of film called “Nina” 2008 directed by Angela Carter, New York. My specialty is directing and writing film and documentaries.

 

Director and producer, besides that I produce small video projects such as industrial video, commercial video ad and online video presentation. As cameraman I have worked with a variety of analogue and digital camera’s like Digi Beta, Betacam SP, SX and also semi professional  camera’s like Sony Z1 and JVC E500 etc. 2000 to present

Editor – Ana Frank, Amsterdam▪Ana Frank, BG -TV France and Spanish TV network.

Actor Persepolis1985- 1995    

Theatre “Unexpected guest” Actor, Film “Theo and Thea”, Actor, theatre “More

Colour”, Amnesty international director/actor, Theatre Me and other me,

 

Director/actor/writer, ACC, Cultural Centre, Theatre black revolution of 89 ACC.

Interpreter, ministry of justice, police, and for Television, Amsterdam, 1995-present

Interpreter of justice department/ministry of public, police and emigration.

NOB and invasion post-production television news, NCRV Afghan refugees, Jorge Mosterd, NOS (NPS) Nederland inside news, IKON, KRO, interpreter and interviewer, TV doc.

 

Teacher and council, ROC and integration office, Amsterdam 2000-2003

Teacher NT2 and MO, Integration office Amsterdam, Teacher NT2 and MO, ROC, regional education centre, Council and supervisor newcomers, community.             

Skills
  • director movie and documentary

  • ENG camera operating, news and documentary

  • Producing small video and film project, online video, commercials, video reportage

  • Actor, training

  • Programming and Software Skills

    Microsoft Office XP, Adobe Photoshop, AVID, Vegas

    Education

    Bachelor, Royal academy of Art The Hague, The Netherlands, 1995.

    University of Amsterdam, philosophy, 1996-1998


    Camera experience with equipements:

    MINI DV, HDV, HVR Sony en JVC, Digi Beta, SX, DV Cam, Betacam SP, 16 mm camera, oude modellen

     

    Present activity

    Right at this moment I am working on a script for a thriller and developing the idea. Thanks to Babylon project 2008 in Rotterdam I am building a very professional network in all of Europe, which is very important to realize a movie. As director I have experience with short movies, documentaries and also with television.

    Ex; some of my projects include the documentary video “far from home” 1995, the short film “me and my fatherland” 1996, the documentary G8 2003, the television programe “ Peyke dad” 2004 and I worke as an item director for RNN “ the expedition RNN7” 2005. As a director and cameraman I worked for very diverse companies in Holland such as Digicam, RTL5, RTL4, Mtnl, NPS, een vandaag, Network, Peter Tettero Media BV and other European production companies such as world reporter media and Pars TV in Los Angeles, Spanish and French television. With much pleasure I can say that I was the cameraman of film called “Nina” 2008 directed by Angela Carter, NewYork. My speciality is directing and writing film and documentaries. Besides that I produce small video projects such as industrial video, commercial video ad and online video presentation. As cameraman I have worked with a variety of analogue and digital camera’s like Digi Beta, Betacam SP, SX and also semi professional  camera’s like Sony Z1 and JVC E500 etc.

      

    Note

    We work often with International crew and producer from USA, England, Germany, France, Spain. We arrange and manage  video and film crew, actors and equipments for small video and film production:

     

    - cameraoperators

    - directors

    - sound ingeniers

    - translators/interpreters

     

    Solmedia is looking for coproducers to produce movies.

     

    For more information please call or send an email to Ario Soltani

    ario@solmedia.nl 

    0031-20-7542038

    0031630456216

     

    Kinkerstraat 16.

    1053 DV Amsterdam

    The Netherlands

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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