Maryam Pirband is a director/ writer who makes character-based films that explore social justice issues. She is best known for her films: Dance with me, Silence, P6, Dandelion Season, Vertical, and My portion. She studied movie directing in Iran and continued her education to a Master’s Degree at California’s Azusa Pacific University; she is a Ph.D. student at The European Graduate School in Philosophy, Visual arts, and critical thoughts. She is a student of great philosophers like Slavoj Žižek.
She began her filmmaking journey in Iran and worked in different countries; She made award-winning films and Tv Shows. Her films have been screened, nominated, and awarded at over 40 festivals worldwide.
She moved to LA a couple of years ago, where she started her career as a festival Jury member. She celebrated Iranian cinema attached to the AOF film festival for two years in California and Nevada. She made her award-winning film Fermysk, leading to the feature film Dandelion Season in LA. Her last Feature film is “Vertical,” A female hero, a horror action-adventure movie in Spanish. She was invited to direct the film based on her experiences as a female action director.
She has been invited to different film festivals’ juries or the head of the jury panel worldwide.
Her books “Triangle” and “Where Am I Standing” were published in 2016 and 2018.