Nazgol Kashani is an Iranian-American filmmaker born in Tehran in 1986. She studied Cultural Policy in Paris and London and later worked as an art curator and cultural journalist for web and TV broadcasts. She obtained her MFA in Filmmaking at Ohio University in 2019. Since then she has made various documentaries and narrative short films, which have been screened at various international film festivals.

Filmography

  • My Uncle Filmi (Animated Documentary, in Development) - Writer and Director

  • Zurvan, Diary of a Divided Self (documentary, 2023) - Director and Editor, Festival: AIFVF

  • Copy Box (short fiction, in post-production) - Editor

  • Baba Jun (documentary, in post-production) - Assistant Editor

  • Life After (docuserie, 2022) Editor

  • May She Rest in Peace (short fiction, 2021) - Writer, Director, and Editor, Festivals and Awards: ARTE Short Film Prize at FilmFest Dresden, Winner of International Short Film at Directed by Women Turkey, Rabat Short Film Festival.

  • An Etiology of Fatigue (short fiction, 2018) - Writer, Director, and Editor, Festivals: AIFVF, Columbus International Film Festival, Berlin Motion Picture Festival

  • Caught (short fiction, 2018) - Director of Photography

  • The Wake (short fiction, 2017) - Writer and Director

  • Blight Busters (documentary, 2016) - Director, Camera and Editor, Festival: Vision Du Reel

  • The Deal (short fiction, 2016) - Writer, Director, and Editor

  • Intruders (short fiction, 2015) - Writer, Director, and Editor

  • Animal (short fiction, 2015) - Director of Photography