Zahra Golafshani

Zahra Golafshani

Zahra Golafshani is a Los Angeles based, award-winning, Iranian-Canadian writer/ director. In 2017, she received her BFA degree with Honours from the Motion Picture Arts program at Laurentian University in Canada and recently completed her MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Amongst her body of work her accolades include: several consecutive nominations for three of her short films in many festivals, multiple awards at Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival, and monetary prizes from both BravoFact and Northern- Ontario Provincial funds for her short film Bullet- Headed (2014).