Team
Filmmaker / Director
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Gilda Pourjabar
Gilda Pourjabar is a Montreal-based filmmaker and editor originally from Iran. After earning a BFA in Film Production and a Master’s in Film Studies, she built a career in documentary cinema as aneditor, working on feature films as well as mainstream television series. Let There Be Light, a scientific documentary film for which she served as a co-editor, was a nominee for SXSW Grand Jury Award and won the Artistic Vision Award of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
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Her feature documentary debut, The Westoxicateds, retraces her coming of age in 1990s Tehran, where contraband rock cassettes became an outlet for teenage angst and anger, fuelling asubculture of defiance under the Islamic Republic’s hardline restrictions.
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Through her editing practice and her own films, she is drawn to stories that bridge the personal and political, experimenting with the ways in which intimate family sagas intertwine with broader historical and cultural context.
Illustrator & Animator
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Siamak Pourjabbar
Born in 1976, Siamak Pourjabar is a Montreal-based visual artist originally from Iran. After earning a BFA in Sculpture from Tehran University of Fine Arts in 2002, he became a familiar name in Tehran’s art scene with a versatile body of work spanning posters for exhibitions, films, and plays, as well as book covers for major Iranian publishers, large-scale murals, graphic t-shirt designs, and paintings on canvas.
In his practice, Siamak crafts intricate, humorous, and fantastical imagery across diverse materials and mediums. His visual language draws from Iranian iconography while blending elements of pop culture, music, and vintage design, resulting in art that is imaginative, playful, and visually striking.
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Featuring
Gilda Pourjabar
Siamak Pourjabbar
Mohammad Mehdi Pourjabbar
Nima Ghorbani
Sanjar Sarabandi
Mostafa Asadollahi
​Saeed Shams