Ali Limonadi

Ali Limonadi (Persian: علی لیمونادی) is an Iranian-born American film and television director, television producer, and journalist. He was the founder of IRTV (acronym for "Iranian television"; Persian:تلویزیون ایرانیان) in Los Angeles, the first television representation of the Iranian diaspora in the United States.[1]

Ali Limonadi
Born
Tehran, Iran
Alma materBerlin University of the Arts
Occupation(s)Film director, television producer, journalist
Known forIRTV

Early life and career

Ali Limonadi was born in Tehran. After high school he moved to Germany. From 1962 until 1968, he studied film directing and cinematography at the Berlin University of the Arts (German: Universität der Künste Berlin). "Das Abonnement" is one of his films which was screened in 1967 on that time.[2]

In 1979, months after the Iranian Revolution ended, Limonadi moved to the United States.[3] He initially planned to stay for one year.[3] In an interview Limonadi said: "At that time, we thought we would return to Iran after six months. We thought the situation would settle and that people could resume their lives back home. Some of us did not even fully unpack our bags."[1]

Post-1979 career

On March 15, 1981, Limonadi launched the first Iranian television station outside Iran named, IRTV (acronym for "Iranian television") shown on television channel KSCI.[1][4][5] He had his own television broadcasting studio based in Studio City, Los Angeles, and he would periodically rent it out.[3][6] He produced the television series, Iranian.[7] Bootleg copies of his show Iranian were smuggled into Iran (via Europe) in the 1980s.[6][8]

In 2007, Limonadi was getting thousands of virus-filled emails which he attributed to "Iranian government agents".[3] Ali Limonadi regularly appears on U.S.–based Iranian media such as Voice of America's Persian Television.[9]

Films
  • Der Deutsche, 1966
  • Das Abonnement, 1967[2]

Book

- One hundred years of struggle towards democracy in Iran (Ali Limonadi's interviews with politicians); Edited by Qasem Beykzadeh. Iranian Archive and Research Foundation, Los Angeles, 2013. (in Persian)[10]

See also

References
  1. Bagherpour, Amir (September 12, 2010). "The Iranian Diaspora in America: 30 Years in the Making". Frontline. PBS, KQED. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  2. O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth (2012). Post-wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent. Camden House. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-57113-522-3.
  3. Barboza, Tony (2007-09-16). "Iranians in U.S. weigh the price of activism". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 2165-1736. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. Akbarzadeh, P. "An Interview with Ali Limonadi". Radio Zamaneh. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  5. Naficy, Hamid (2011-09-16). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941. Duke University Press. pp. lvii. ISBN 978-0-8223-4775-0.
  6. Naficy, Hamid (1993-01-01). The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2084-5.
  7. During, Simon (1999). The Cultural Studies Reader. Psychology Press. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-415-13754-6.
  8. Parks, Lisa; Kumar, Shanti (2003). Planet TV: A Global Television Reader. NYU Press. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-8147-6692-7.
  9. "Persian tv weekly highlights 4/9". VOA. 9 April 2007. Retrieved 9 Apr 2007.
  10. على, ليمونادى، (2013). Talāsh-i ṣad sālah-i millat-i Īrān. ISBN 9781467553674. Retrieved 4 Feb 2017. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

Further reading
  • Naficy, Hamid (1993). The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816620845.
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