Mina Keshavarz Email & Phone Number

An awarded Iranian documentary filmmaker and producer Mina Keshavarz was born in 1984. Her films are about social issues with a personal narrative which have premiered in IDFA, Thessaloniki, Busan International Film Festival, Sheffield, Tribeca, London Film Festival including “Unwelcome in Tehran”, “Profession: Documentaries”, “Braving the Waves” and “The Art of Living in Danger”. Her films have been supported by IDFA Bertha Fund, Sorfond, Fritt Ord, Arte/ ZDF, NRW Cinema Fund and HotDocs International CrossCurrent Theatrical Fund. Besides her films as director, Mina recently produced “Fish Eye” directed by Amin Behroozzadeh which has been premiered in Visions du Reel 2020. This film won best film in progress award in Sarajevo Film Festival 2019 and nominated for best International Documentary film in DOCPOINT Film Festival Finland and has been screened in more than 20 film festivals around the world and broadcasted widely in Europe. She is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, HotDocs Emerging Docs Accelerator Lab, EsoDoc, Tribeca Film Institute, she is an invited fellow in Nipkow Film Residency in Berlin, Berlin Air Film Residency, Academy of Art Kunste Berlin and currently resident at Cite Internationale Des Arts.Mina’s last film “The Art of Living in Danger” won Best Documentary Film award in Busan International Film Festival 2020 and has been qualified for Oscar feature length documentary film competition 2021. And has received 10 other International awards. Her new documentary film “Phobos” is a short experimental film which is part of a program called A Sense of Place supported by Wim Wenders. This film had its world premiere in CPH:Dox in March 2023 and now traveling in other film festivals, such as Beldocs, Sheffield,etc.She is member of DAE (Documentary Association of Europe) and EWA (European Women in Audiovisual) . she was also jury member in One World Media Awards 2021 in London and lecturer in ESoDoc/ Zelig Film School in Italy and Griffith Film School in Brisbane, Australia.