Today we’d like to introduce you to Farzad Refahi
Hi Farzad, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I was born and growth in Tehran, capital of Iran and I began my way in my country, I made my beginners short films when I was 16-17 years old, then, after military service, I started my career in movie and TV industries as 2nd and 1st assistant director, script supervisor, set line producer, production manager and producer and at the same time I made some TV commercials and worked as professional photographer too.
Finally I had to move to Turkey as refuge on 2011 and after done my UN process in 2013, I migrated to the US; my first city was Chicago, IL, the city that I went to college for first time in the US.
A couple months later, I found an opportunity for working in my main career, as director and producer in California, so I moved here, Los Angeles, and settled done here.
I done my first project, but after that, I understood it was not enough for working as professional here, so I went to “Video Production” short term course, nine months, in the occupational center in the Valley, LA (WVOC); I passed the courses, it was great and I learned a lot things there but again, I preferred learn more, so I went to the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood in 2016 and after three years and some months more, in December 2019, am graduate and having earned a Bachelor of Science in “Film Production – Cinematography”. When I was student, around 2017-2018, I could find more connections with some event planners and models, so I began my career as Video/Photographer in Fashion industries too. The film school was a wonderful experience to me and I learned a lot there and it was so helpful for increasing knowledge, connections and opportunities.
By the way, thanks God, I am OK now and I try to find new ways, new opportunities and new challenges every day and I believe each day will be better than other day when we work hard and harder.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Absolutely not! When I migrated to the US, I was not so young, I was around 42-43 and with a lot of issues like new language, financial issues, being unfamiliarity with all situations and culture, etc. but I tried to my best for passing everything; it was an huge challenge to me and for sure, it will be a big challenge for everybody, when they migrate and move to a new country, but it is an amazing experience and I am so thankful of the United States always because it has made a lot opportunities to me that I was deprived of them in my country.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a photographer, filmmaker, director, cinematographer, editor and colorist and I have worked in many projects with different positions and hats.
I have LinkTree, website, YouTube, social medias and I can find some opportunities via them and for sure I have a lot of work connections now that I have made them in last 10 years.
I put my LinkTree here and everybody can find many things about me and my projects there:
https://linktr.ee/farzadrefahi
In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
I am sure that I will have more opportunities, more famous and bigger clients, I believe the business will be better and better day by day and year by year; when I run my career on 2014 in the US, everything was so hard and I started with minimal features but now I have many clients and enough equipment for small and medium projects. It is a good sign and makes more hope for continuing on my way.
Pricing:
- Video/Photo Shoot : $65/H and Minimum $150/Project (Less than 2 Hours Shoot)
- Video Editing : $55/H and Minimum $135/Project (Less than 2 Hours Editing)
- We have great Offers Per Projects too; sometimes it will be much better than Hourly work.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.glamoursarts.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photobyfarzad/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farzad.rf
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@farzadrefahi1025/videos
- Other: https://linktr.ee/farzadrefahi
Image Credits
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