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
 * The Lion King (1994)
 * The Lion King (2019)
 * The Lorax
 * Megamind
 * Mr. Peabody and Sherman
 * My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas
 * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 * The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water
 * The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
 * Tangled
 * WALL-E
 * Zootopia

Shows

 * Animaniacs
 * Charlie and Lola
 * Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
 * The Looney Tunes Show
 * 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 women's solos in the musical episodes of animations and Ashkan Sadeghi, Hamed Azizi and Mahmoud Ghanbari were the ones who in their interviews with different media criticized Mehrdad Raissi, introducing him as the main cause of turning Tehran into a dubbing base for satellite channels, the loss of the prestige of dubbing and promoting corruption in the art of dubbing. Mehrdad 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 the statements of Ashkan Sadeghi and even demanded to file a complaint against him.

Cessation of activity
After 12 years of official activity, in 2017 and after the migration of Mehrdad Raissi to the United States, the studio stopped its activity and 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.