When a consortium of western oil companies took over the operation of the Iranian oil industry in 1954, Ebrahim Golestan, one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and writers, was recruited to work in public relations at the new company and put in charge of making educational films.
In 1957 he founded his own Golestan Studios and in 1959, after he had severed ties with the oil consortium, he negotiated the buyout of the equipment with which he had made their documentaries. With this equipment, his studio became the most sophisticated centre for film-making in Iran.
