Hossein Martin Fazeli is a multi-award-winning Iranian-Canadian writer, director, and producer. He has spent more than two decades creating fiction and non-fiction films and television projects and has worked extensively around the world, directing and producing in more than a dozen countries (fazelifilms.com).
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His films have been broadcast around the world, including on CBC, BBC, ARTE, and Canal+, winning 45 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", which follows the case of a teenage girl on death row in Iran, was broadcast worldwide on networks such as BBC and CNN and is widely credited with sparking the international campaign that saved her life. Only a handful of films in the history of cinema have directly altered the fate of a human being; this remains one of them.
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 SOAS (UK), Aarhus University & European Film Academy (Denmark), SFU (Canada), MIT (India) and Berlin School of Arts, Media and Entertainment (Germany).
