Glory Entertainment

Glory Entertainment (also known as The Association of Tehran Young Voice Actors) (Persian: انجمن گویندگان جوان تهران) is an Iranian institute specializing in dubbing movies and primarily animated films and cartoons for the Persian-speaking audience. The association began operating officially on December 6, 2005, after acquiring official license and permit from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance with the goal of entrepreneurship, rendering high-quality content, improving the quality of Iran's dubbing system using state-of-the-art technology and meeting universal criteria in the field. Glory Entertainment has recruited over 380 voice actors and has launched 10 digital recording studios.

History
The association increased its range of activities since by dubbing works commissioned by the IRIB, local home-video companies, directors, local and foreign animation producers, the UN and Radio Javan. The association has received different awards from IRIB TV5, the 16th Festival of the Capital Cities of Iran's Provinces' TV-Radio Products and the UN - WFP.

Notable works dubbed by the association include the works of Walt Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks and studios alike.

Films

 * 9
 * Barnyard
 * Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot
 * The Emperor's New Groove
 * Encanto
 * Frozen
 * Gaturro: The Movie
 * Killer Bean Forever
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Kung Fu Panda 2
 * Kung Fu Panda 3
 * The Lion King (1994)
 * The Lion King (2019)
 * The Lorax
 * Megamind
 * Mr. Peabody and Sherman
 * My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas
 * Niko & the Way to the Stars
 * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 * The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water
 * The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
 * Tangled
 * WALL-E
 * Zootopia

Series

 * Animaniacs
 * Charlie and Lola
 * Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
 * The Looney Tunes Show
 * Mickey Mouse
 * Phineas and Ferb (under Avaye Mandegar)
 * Sonic X (under Avaye Mandegar)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants
 * Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures (under Avaye Mandegar)
 * Super Mario World

Other activities
The association's further activities include publishing the first dubbing periodical called The Dubbing in Iran which provided information on the topic. The association is now publishing the first professional dubbing magazine called Sedapisheh. In 2012, Glory Entertainment started an Internet radio station by the name of Voice of Glory which streams children's stories 24/7.

Controversy
At the end of its career, the studio was criticized by the media for its activities in satellite channels and dubbing women's solos in the musical episodes of animations. Ashkan Sadeghi, Hamed Azizi, and Mahmoud Ghanbari were the ones who in interviews with different media criticizing Mehrdad Raissi, stating he is the main reason for why Tehran was turning into a dubbing base for satellite channels, the loss of the prestige of dubbing, and promoting corruption in the art of dubbing. Raissi only defended himself in response to Ashkan Sadeghi's statements. He sent a letter from himself and the studio to Watan Today Media, in which he denied all of Sadeghi's statements and even demanded to file a complaint against him.

Cessation of activity
Following the migration of its founder Mehrdad Raissi to the United States, the studio stopped its official activity in 2017 after 12 years. They remained inactive until 2021, when the studio started working again with the production of Persian dubs for Luca, Encanto, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild and Lightyear; however, since the launch of their Lightyear dub, the studio has gone inactive again for unknown reasons and is now dedicated to providing dubbing and voice acting classes to new actors.