Ph.D. Research Fellow

Amir Bashti Monfared

Stipendiat

Stipendiat

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
Ph.D. Project

In his article-based Ph.D. project entitled 'Social-issue Documentaries and Production Trends in the Contemporary Transnational Documentary Ecologies', Amir explores different questions involving issues of the production of social impact documentaries.
 

Vitskapeleg arbeid

CRIStin

Vitskaplege artiklar og bokkapittel
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Monetizing Otherness: Strategic Self-Orientalism and the Politics of New Media Pseudo-Documentaries
Publisert 2025 av Amir Bashti Monfared

Northern Impacts: Norway’s Documentary Industry and Transnational Production Models
Publisert 2024 av Amir Bashti Monfared

Norway’s Social Impact Documentary Culture in the Global Context of Documentary Hybridization
Publisert 2023 av Amir Bashti Monfared

A Historical Overview of the Development of Social-issue Documentaries in Norway
Publisert 2023 av Amir Bashti Monfared

Seeking Identity in Diasporic Film in Norway. A Textual Analysis of the TV Series Norsk-ish (2020 NRK) Season One
Publisert 2023 av Amir Bashti Monfared, Endre Eidsaa Larsen
Publisher: Høgskulen i Volda

Norway’s Film Financing Schemes and their Potential Influences on Social Issue Documentary Films
Publisert 2023 av Amir Bashti Monfared

Narrative Agency and Empathetic Engagement in Non-fiction Virtual Reality
Publisert 2023 av Amir Bashti Monfared

‘Shooting for Change: Mapping Review of Key Aspects of Strategic Impact Documentaries (SIDs)’
Publisert 2022 av Amir Bashti Monfared

Accented Norsk: Journey of Identity in Migrant and Diasporic Cinema and TV in Norway
Publisert 2021 av Amir Bashti Monfared