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 bachelor's and master's degree in Dramatic Literature from the Faculty of Cinema & Theater at the University of Art in Tehran. He also has a second master's 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 currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) and a lecturer in documentary filmmaking, storytelling & narratology, and location sound recording & sound design at the Department of Media and Journalism (AMF) in Volda. 

Scientific Research Interests:

• Film Production Research & the Practice of Filmmaking
• Migrant Film and Identity
• Narration in Documentary Film 
• Virtual Reality non-fiction 
• Iranian Cinema