Amir Masoud Soheili

Amir Masoud Soheili is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer, and festival programmer born in 1988. With his films "Blue-eyed boy" (2014) and "Elephantbird" (2019), he has won more than 40 awards from over 300 film festivals. He was a member of 9 film festivals, including the Yogya Netpac Asian Film Festival (2015), Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal (2016 and 2018), Saark Film Festival in Sri Lanka (2017), International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in India (2018), Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey (2018), Dhaka International Youth Film Festival in Bangladesh (2020), Accra Indie Film Festival in Ghana (2022), Chaktomuk Short Film Festival in Cambodia (2022) and Azemeis Film Festival in Portugal (2022). Masoud is the co-founder and creative director of the "Asia Peace Film Festival" in Islamabad, Pakistan, and programmer of the "Changing Perspective Intentional Film Festival" in Istanbul, Turkey. Additionally, he directed the inaugural "Safe Community" International Film Festival in Mashhad, Iran (2017). He holds a bachelor's degree in law from Ferdowsi University. He studied cinema at the Indonesian Art Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for one year. In 2016, he attended the Asian Film Academy, and in 2018, he studied "International Film Business" at the Busan Asian Film School. Presently, he is studying for his master's in script writing at Kinoeyes, a European joint master's program. In addition, he has worked as a freelance photographer, ideograph, and video-journalist for platforms including National Geographic, AJ+, VICE media, TRT, Great Big Story, VOA, and Business Insider. His debut photography book, "Durian on my head," was published in Iran and Indonesia.