Amir Bashti Monfared

Amir Pouyan Bashti Monfared is a documentary filmmaker with a decade of practical experience in Iran's film industry. He has received awards for his documentary and corporate films in Iran and Tokyo Docs in Japan. Amir Pouyan has a BA and MA in Dramatic Literature from the Faculty of Cinema & Theater at the University of Art in Tehran, with a second MA in Media Practices from Volda University College. Amir has previously worked as a junior producer for the Norwegian documentary production company UpNorth Film AS. 

This is a showreel of some of Amir's projects (2013 - 2019)

He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), visiting the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a lecturer in documentary filmmaking, storytelling, and location sound recording at the Faculty of Media and Journalism (AMF) in Volda. He is also co-chairing the Television and Film Studies Division of NordMedia Conference 2025.

PH.D. Article - published in the Journal of Studies in Documentary Film
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17503280.2024.2445241
 

Scientific Research Interests:

• Film Production & Practice-led Research
• Migrant Film and Identity
• Documentary Film Studies
• Non-fiction Virtual Reality 
• Iranian Cinema