Alireza Kazemipour
Award-winning Iranian-Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer Alireza Kazemipour was born in 1973 in Tehran. He has gained his master's degree in film directing from the faculty of art at the University of Tehran in 2010 and directed his first short film "Slowness". He made his second film "The Blue Bed" in 2020 and it has been selected and screened for more than 60 Film festivals around the world and has been received 15 awards and 14 nominations, including the Best Director Award from the Vancouver Short Film Festival.