Bita Ghassemi

Bita Ghassemi is an Iranian-American film and music video director from Austin, Texas. She graduated as the 2018 Outstanding Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film and a minor in German. She is the recipient of the Schwarzman Scholarship - a highly selective fully-funded scholarship to earn a Master's in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. As an advocate for diversity in front of and behind the camera, she has directed Farsi-language short films that have premiered at a multitude of festivals around the world. Other projects she has worked on include award-winning narrative short films, documentaries, music videos, branded content, campaign videos and commercials. She is the founder of PILLARBOXED, a video production company based in Austin, TX with a mission to diversify Hollywood narratives and create visually compelling, universal stories that strike a balance between entertaining audiences, finding truth in humanity, and delivering meaningful societal messages.