Maryam Ghiasi is an Iranian filmmaker, screenwriter and video artist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Cell and Molecular Biology.
She was the assistant director on Faust, a dance project by Alireza Mirmohammadi.
Thereafter, she was convinced that cinema was more of a priority for her. So she continued her study in master of Cinema at Tarbiat Modarres University, although after a while she quit University due to some personal issues.
Then, Ghiasi participated in a four-year course of VFX at Tehran Technical and Vocational Training Organization to strengthen her technical abilities.
In order to enhance her writing abilities, she participated in Shadmehr Rastin and Asghar Farhadi advanced scriptwriting course at Karnameh Cultural Center and Bamdad International House in Tehran.
Afterwards, she created two short films The Home Which I Loved and Stain as scriptwriter/ director.
Stain had been selected by Larissa Film Festival in 2021.
Recently she had a collaboration with Alireza Mirmohammadi in his last solo dance Project Lullaby as director advisor while working on her third script in parallel.
Lullaby has its Belgian premiere at Charleroi Danse in the middle of June 2021.
She is in an artistic residency in Cassis, France from February to May 2021.