Iranian born, Los Angeles raised

Iranian made, California raised, Sara Vessal is the 4x-great granddaughter of 19th Century Persian Poet, Vessal Shirazi. She majored in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Berkeley,…

I’ve always been a storyteller at heart and started writing when I was 14. I have a collection of writings that includes short stories, articles, and countless ideas/loglines, as well…

Originally from Iran of Armenian descent, Christine Khalafian’s short-form directing work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Florida Film Festival, and Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. She…

Afsaneh is a British Iranian actor, fluent in Farsi and based in London, UK. Credits include: Marriage (BBC), The Phantom of the Open (BBC Films), Our Kind of Love (Underwire…

Toranj was born in Iran and raised in Canada. In 2017 she started working as an actor in Indian cinema and has performed in English, Persian, Hindi, Pashto and Urdu.…

Kataneh Vahdani is a director, Animation creator, storyteller and a professor. She was born in Iran but came to the United States in pursuit of her dream: to have a…

Neagheen Homaifar is an Iranian-American actor who speaks Persian and Spanish. Most recently, she was the lead in a dramatic short film executive produced by Lena Waithe that premiered at…

Iranian American (first gen) DP based in la

Ghazaleh Golbakhsh (she/her) is an Iranian-New Zealand writer, actor, filmmaker and Fulbright scholar. Recently she was one of eight filmmakers selected to write and direct on the feature anthology, Kainga,…