Multi-award winning American filmmaker Oliver Stone will attend Fajr International Film Festival in Iran, the director of the event Reza Mirkarimi indicated Wednesday.
Stone,known by his films Platoon, Scarface, Born on the Fourth of July and Natural Born Killers will participate together with another prominent figures of the film world like the Italian actor Franco Nero, among other creators.
The 36th Fajr Film Festival headed by the writer and film director Mirkarimi will take place in this capital from 19 to 27 April.
The American scriptwriter and director is well known because of his controversial and renegade work of the Hollywood style.
Stone began his successful career with blockbuster scripts like Conan the Barbarian (1982), Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma and starred by Al Pacino and Year of the Dragon (1985).
The American film maker began the film direction in the drama Salvador (1986) which also wrote it. The film describes a journalist ups and downs, performed by James Wood, which portraits the atrocities committed during violent uprisings in El Salvador during the 1980s.
Other of his productions which exhibits the way to make of the Hollywood film industry was Platoon (1986) a denounce about Viet Nam war.
In 1991, Stone made JFK, a thorough investigation of the President John F. Kennedy's murder circumstances; and in other field, a story about the fall and rise of the American rock band The Doors.
Stone selected Anthony Hopkins for the main character of Nixon (1985), part of the former American president's life,and he adapted the script of Evita (1996) based on the musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber about the Argentine politician Eva Peron, starred by Madonna.
The film maker, besides fiction movies, made two documentary films about Latino American policy, Commandant (2003), about Cuban former president Fidel Castro and South of the Border (2009), focused on some left leaders , especially the former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.
