Bio

Pouria Takavar born on December 31, 1995 in Tehran, Iran. Pouira began his career as

a child actor in commercials. Growing up with a camera in his hand, Pouria shot his

first short film at the age of 6,"Toy Store" for which he received a Young Artist Award

from Roshd International Film Festival in 2002. He has written and directed eight short

films and 2 documentaries for which he won several Iranian short film awards including

the Best Short Film at the 13th Nahal international Student Short Film, in 2015. In 2017,

his documentary film "Zeytoon" was premiered and nominated at the 2017

Zoom-Zblizenia International Film Festival. Pouria attracted international attention with

his Instagram series "Tehrun" in 2016, which he wrote, directed, cinematographed,

edited at the age of 21, using funds from his extensive work as an editor. Tehrun is an

Instagram Series of 90 episodes of 1 min length. In March 23, 2018, Pouria entered the

development phase with arte fr and Laonda Prods for his next web series "Happiness".

The series follows an Iranian teenage 17-year-old girl who is in the quest of happiness

in a county like Iran. Meantime, he directed the music video for Ashkan Khatibi's hit

single "Dasteto Bede Man" in 2020. In 2021,he was served as the second unit director

and the first assistant director of one of the most famous Iranian series “Roozegar

Javani”. In July 1 2021,Happiness was selected to compete in the Formats Courts at the

2021 Festival Séries Mania. This International TV Series Festival takes place from 2021

August 26th to September 2nd, 2021, in Lille, Hauts-de-France, and online. "Happiness"

will be exploited on several social media (specifically on arte_asuivre Instagram page),

platforms and digital media by arte France, mid September.