Habib Ahmadzadeh

Habib Ahmadzadeh (Persian: حبیب احمدزاده) is an Iranian author novelist and scriptwriter, born in 1963 in Abadan.

During the war, he rose from being a teenage volunteer Basiji militiaman to becoming a captain in the regular army.

In 1998, he began his career in cinema as a script editor with Ebrahim Hatamikia at The Glass Agency, and in 2007, he received the Iranian House of Cinema award for best screenplay for The Night Bus.

He has filmed a number of documentaries over his career, the most recent of which, The Outstanding Statue in the World, earned the Tehran Cinema Verite Festival prize for best documentary in 2012.

Habib Ahmadzadeh has also been an influential youth advocate in Iran.