Kamran Heidari Was Born In Gachsaran, Near Shiraz In 1978 .
He Is A Freelance Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer, With An Interest In Street Photography, Graffiti And Ethno-Music. His Work Focuses On Film And Photography About The People Of Shiraz (Fars Province) And The South Of Iran.
“My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns” (2012), His First Feature medium Length Documentary Was Screened In Many Festivals Around The World, Among Which Busan International Film Festival And Rotterdam.
Soudabeh Beiza’ee is a Persian literature graduate from Ahvaz University. She started her career by playing in feature films (A Man of Integrity – Un Certain Regard 2017). Then she began writing screenplays. While she was doing research for a screenplay, she became interested in the documentary cinema. Like My Name Pegah is her first documentary.
Suzan Iravanian was born in 1985 in Shiraz, Iran. She holds a B.A. in Art and Architecture from Shiraz Art and Architecture university and also received an M.A. in filmmaking from New York Film Academy in 2009 and an M.A. in Cult Film & Television from Brunel University in 2012.
Since 2009 Iravanian has been involved in writing short stories and the production of short films and documentaries and in 2015 after receiving a very good feedback for the story she had written for her Oxford creative writing course she started the pre-production of her first feature film based on that story.
Iravanian is also a photographer and graphic designer.
Mohammad Rasoulof (born 1972 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He studied sociology in Tehran.
His first feature-length film, The Twilight (Gagooman), was released in 2002 and was awarded with the Crystal Simorgh for the Best First Film at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. His second feature, Iron Island (Jazire-ye ahani), was released in 2005. His feature The White Meadows (Keshtzarha-ye sepid) was released in 2009.
Goodbye (Be omid-e didar) premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the section Un Certain Regard and won the prize for directing. His film Manuscripts Don’t Burn was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. A Man of Integrity won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. There Is No Evil was awarded the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020.
