A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
زەهاوی سنجاوی
Birthplace:
Erbil, Iraq
Born:
June 18, 1968
Zahavi Sanjavi was born in 1967 in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. In 1975 he sought asylum in Iran along with his family, as a result of the war which broke out in Iraqi Kurdistan. Since 1990 he has lived in Sweden. Zahavi pursued his studies in the field of scriptwriting and filmmaking at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow. Over the next nine years, he worked for TV in Iraqi Kurdistan. For the last two years, Zahavi has been working in Sweden on his documentary and feature films as director, scriptwriter, and producer.
Director:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Editor:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Producer:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Researcher:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Screenplay:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Script:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
Writer:
2009 All My Mothers
2016 The Return
2021 Imad's Childhood
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.