Hossein Martin Fazeli

Hossein Martin Fazeli has been an A-List director in North America for many years. He has been producing, directing, and writing fiction and non-fiction television and film for more than two decades and has extensive international experience, having worked on location in a dozen different countries.

His films have been broadcast around the world, including on CBC, BBC, ARTE, and Canal+, winning 37 international awards in the process.

Throughout the years he has collaborated with organizations such as UNDP, European Commission,

and Nonviolence International on a wide range of film and television projects, including national and

regional campaigns, exploring issues such as human rights, women’s rights, and minority rights.

His 2007 production, “The Tale of Two Nazanins”, about a teenage girl imprisoned on death row in Iran, was broadcast on major international networks such as the BBC and CNN and is credited with igniting an international campaign that saved her life.

In 2008, Fazeli was chosen by the Sundance Institute to take part in their International Filmmakers

Award. He has lectured around the world on the ever changing face of film production and has held

workshops with students at various educational institutions such as SFU (Canada), SOAS (UK), Aarhus University (Denmark) and the European Film Academy. For more info, please visit: www.fazelifilms.com