Parisa Zandbaf is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and PhD candidate working on film form and spectatorship in transnational contexts. She holds a BA from the University of Tehran and a fully funded Erasmus Mundus Joint MA completed across Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy. In 2024, she completed her second MA in Filmmaking in London with distinction, fully funded by the Chevening scholarship.

Her academic work has been recognised through roles and competitive selections, including serving as a judge for the Global Undergraduate Awards, The Junior Nobel Prize (Dublin, 2023), being shortlisted for interview rounds for two Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellowships in 2025, and receiving a full Erasmus Mundus grant to contribute to the Euroculture Intensive Program at the University of Groningen in 2026, which she later returned due to illness.

Furthermore, her engagement with international film culture includes jury roles at the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival (2021) and the Changing Face International Film Festival in Sydney (2022). In 2024, she received an honorable mention for Standout Newcomer Director at the FOMI festival, hosted by the UCL Film & TV Society. Her films have received numerous international awards and nominations across global festivals.

Alongside her creative practices, she received a first-place award for the Best Business Idea Pitch at the Humanities Venture Lab (University of Amsterdam, 2025), leading to the foundation of CineCircuit, an emerging film production and distribution label focusing on independent and underrepresented voices.

The Dutch-Iranian award-winning artist, researcher, and founder aims to continue transcending borders and provoking thought through her work.