He was born Tehran, in 1943. He continued his higher studies to take a masters degree in graphics from the University of Fine Arts in Braunschwieg, Germany. He also studied film design, production and animation films direction at Hochschule der Kunste (University of Fine Art) in Berlin.
Navim worked as a director of German documentaries and advertising films at Deutsche Dokumentar und Werbe Film and founded the Zentrum fur Film und Grafik (Center for Film, Photography and Graphics) at FU (Free University) in Berlin. He is the key animator of the feature film Agaton Sax, the first full-animated feature film in Sweden at Team-Film A.B. As an animation teacher he has taught at the Postgraduate School of Farabi University, IRIB TV College and Tehran University in Iran while directing and producing animated films in IRIB TV Channel 1.
Founding Navim Film Studio in Tehran, Film Folket association and Animation Production Company in Sweden, directing and producing films at Hunnar Film in Bombay (India), New Vision and Medesign Company (Sweden) and making more than 40 short films are the main parts of his career as a filmmaker. Navim,s last film, "Regal, the Golden Eagle" won awards at Chicago and Mill Valley Film Festivals and nominated for Guldbagge (Golden Ram) 2000), the most respected award in Sweden. He is also a member of the Director Boarding of Kaleidoscope in Sweden.
Filmography: "The Birth" and "Regal, the Golden Eagle".
Hamid Navim's workshop is to have a group of forty skilled Kanoon animators become acquainted with new animation techniques.
This is a good opportunity for our interested fellow countryman to gain valuable knowledge from this well-known master.
The main topics at this workshop are as follow:
1- Basic animation (timing, spacing, squash and stretch contact and ....)
2- Methods of animation
3- Moving of different human characters
4- Moving of animals and birds
5- Training on the writing of dialogues and music, storyboard designing, ....

Founding Director of VanArts
Lee Mishkin has had the privilege of working alongside and learning his craft from some of the greatest artist of the Golden Age of Animation. His career began in 1949, working on Jay Ward's Crusader Rabbit, the first animated series created specifically for television.
Through the 50s and 60s Lee worked on theatrical series such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Popeye, animated TV special, and the combination live-action/animation Don Knotts comedy feature, The Incredible Mr. Limpett.
In 1670, Lee animated and directed Is it Always Right To Be Right?, narrated by Orson Welles, which won the Academy-Award for Best Animated Short. While working in England Lee received the British Grierson Award for directing Butterfly Ball, the first animated rock video.
Lee has also received two Emmy nominations for co-writing and directing Faeries, a CBS television special.
Most notable among the numerous animated titles and inserts Lee Mishkin has produced for television series and specials over the years, are the animated introduction to the favorite Adam West Batman series.

VanArts
The Purpose of VanArts is to communicate knowledge about the principles and techniques of media arts to people with artistic potential for his field.
Our programs are founded upon traditional approaches to storytelling, character performance and visual graphics and adapt the artistic core of these traditions to new and emerging technologies within the entertainment industry.
VanArts is a small college packed with huge talent. The classical animation program has founded by internationally renowned animator Lee Mishkin. VanArts offers intensive 48-week diploma programs in 2D Animation, 3D Animation, Game Art & Design and a two-year diploma in Commercial Animation.
Each year, VanArts invites special guest instructors to teach workshop for our full-time and summer students. These industry professionals which have included Academy-Award winning animators, supervising animators/directors, have worked on such projects as Monsters, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cinderella, Alice & Wonderland.
VanArts is fully accredited by the Private Post-Secondary Education Commission of British Columbia.