Traveller 1st Place & Interview with Sam

Traveller has won 1st Place in the MUSIC VIDEO Category from the MY HERO International Film Festival and will be screened Nov 25, 2013 at the USC Cinematic Arts.
At the same time the video is selected in the Streaming International Audio Visual Festival and will be screened online via the festival website in December. The Streaming Festival has done an Interview with Sam about him and his works. Click on the picture below to read the interview:

Sam Online - First Number (Farsi Edition about Traveller)

Sam Online - First Number - First Year (Farsi Edition about Traveller) 

Just A Day - Lena Katina

I'm delighted to present to you, our new music video made for Lena Katina's "Just A Day" Music Video Competition.
It went public at the same time Lena released the video online on her official Jammer page!
Ali and I would love to hear what you think about it!



Lena Katina - Just A Day from Sam Chegini on Vimeo.

Sprockets Music Video Show

Hello everyone! How's it going? I've been busy working on a new music video lately and couldn't update my weblog earlier! I will update you with more news about it soon!
I'm sure you have heard the name "Sprockets" before! specially those of you who are interested in Music Video industry! I'm very pleased to announce that 'Traveller' is an Official Selection of this year's Sprockets Music Video Show in Athens, Georgia! The screening session is a month away and this year's line up includes music videos from:
Athens, GA USA-Atlanta, GA USA-Budapest, Hungary-Chicago, IL USA-Houston, TX USA- Lawrenceville, GA USA - London, United Kingdom - Los Angeles, CA USA - New York, NY USA
Norman, OK USA - Paris, France - Qazvin, Iran - Toronto, Canada - West Hollywood, CA USA
and Wilmington, NC USA

You can read more about Sprockets Music Video Show here on Paste Magazine.

Another good news: Traveller is the Official Semi-final selection of this year in the Kunstpiep Festival, Germany! More yet to come!

NO. 1 Frisian Charts!

Thanks to your votes Traveller reached No. 1 in Frisian charts on Klipkar+ tv programme last month and it was broadcasted again!
Your support means a lot to us thank you everyone who voted for Traveller!

Vote for Traveller

You can vote for Traveller here

Traveller was broadcasted on Klipkar programme on Omropfryslan tv channel, Saturday 3.9.2013! They will broadcast it again if we get enough votes! so please go to their website here and vote for "Linde Nijland en Bert Ridderbos - Traveller". 

Many thanks in advance!

Linde talks about Traveller!

A very nice interview with Linde Nijland about Traveller on the Dutch TV programme, RTVNoord channel.

Linde Nijland on RTVNoord

The Royal Reel Award - Canada International Film Festival

Music Video of the song 'Traveller' has won 'The Royal Reel Award' in the music video category from 'Canada International Film Festival'. This is the first time that an Iranian filmmaker wins this prestigious award.
Linde Nijland's 'Traveller' music video, made by the young Iranian filmmaker Sam Chegini, which had recently won the 2nd place in the Experimental/Music video category from 'The 6th Boomtown Film and Music Festival' is announced winner from the Canada International Film Festival official website.

Traveller has got something on her way back from Texas!

It's official! Linde Nijland's video 'Traveller by Sam won 2nd place in the Boomtown film and music festival in the experimental/music video category!!! Special thanks to all those who supported Traveller in its journey around the world!

Link to the news: Vrouw Online, BN deStem

Traveller is here

Hello everyone, I forgot to put a link to Traveller on my blog! We've been busy with Traveller premieres lately. I'm so glad about the premieres and can't wait to get back to work with Traveller and more premieres! Hopefully the DVD will be out soon with special features, behind the scenes and interviews..
'Traveller' has been premiered in Netherlands, Iran, Romania and Spain so far. you can find out more about Traveller on Wikipedia. it's also on IMDb if you wanna add it to your watchlist!
Make sure to 'Like' my page on Facebook for updates.

Traveller Official Website here