Sepanta would go on to direct movies such as Ferdowsi (the life story of the most celebrated epic poet of homeland), Shirin and Farhad (a classic persian love story), and Black Eyes (the story of Nader Shah’s invasion of India). In 1937, he directed Laili and Majnoon, an Eastern love story similar to the English story of Romeo and Juliet.
The cinematographic camera was introduced to homeland in 1929, as yet another tool of modernization. After Mirza Ebrahim Khan, several others like Russi Khan, Ardeshir Khan, and Ali Vakili tried to establish new movie theaters in capital. Until the early 1930s, there were little more than 15 theatres in capital and 11 in other provinces. In 1925, Ovanes Ohanian, decided to establish the first film school in homeland. Within five years he managed to run the first session of the school under the name “Parvareshgahe Artistiye Cinema”.
