Simin Farkhondeh is an award winning filmmaker, artist, educator and activist. She directs films with a progressive message. Her work has appeared on PBS, Channel Four of England and at screening venues such as the Whitney Museum and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. She was co -director of the award winning anti war Deep Dish TV Series, Gulf Crisis TV Project and director of the acclaimed monthly television series Labor at the Crossroads (LABOR X), about work issues, which aired on cable in New York and other cities across the US. Among her films are WHO GIVES KISSES FREELY FROM HER LIPS, a film about temporary marriage in Iran inspired by Cuban Imperfect Cinema, and Ground One an interactive web project about the impact of 911 on the Chinatown community. Among the shorts she produced and directed are ADJUNCT AGONY, a drama about the plight of adjunct faculty in US universities, SALT PEANUTS a look at the effect of September 11 on airline workers and OTHER, a fiction piece on the plight of Middle Eastern detainees. Simin is a recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship Award and numerous other awards. She teaches Film and Video Arts at School of Visual Arts, Communications Theory at Fordham University, and is currently working on a documentary entitled Iran in the Orientalist Mind. Third World Newsreel and Arab Films distribute her work.

She received her M.F.A. in Media and Communication Arts from the City University of New York and is a Whitney Independent Study Program for the Arts fellow. She received her B.F.A. in Video/Experimental Arts, from the University of Hartford Art School.

Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri is an award-winning independent filmmaker and educator, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. she received her BA from Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University. Currently she is completing her doctoral studies at Temple University. She works for Link Television series Bridge to Iran and on documentary programs that promote understanding of Iran, including Cinema Encounters in Tehran and Conversations in Tehran. She has worked for Deep Dish TV on a 12-part series about the war in Iraq, which was broadcast on PBS and has been shown world-wide in museums, art houses and universities. It was included in the 2005 Whitney Museum Biennial.

Her personal documentaries are about Iran and her relationship to the country she left as a young person, the upheavals of revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and years of difficult history with the US. Her work has shown widely in museums, art houses, universities and on television. They include Road to Kurdistan, 2011, Women Like Us, 2002; A Place Called Home, 1998; Far From Iran, 1990; Journal from Tehran, 1987. Her work is distributed by Women Make Movies and Arab Films.

Editor Bahman Kiarostami started his work as an assistant director in 1996 and made his first documentary, Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design, in the same year. His subsequent films have focused primarily on art and music, often touching on religious themes.