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Hossein Martin Fazeli has been producing, directing, and writing fiction and non-fiction television and film for more than two decades and has extensive international experience, having worked on location in India, Iran, UAE, Japan, Egypt, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Mexico, and Brazil, as well as the United States and Canada. His films have been broadcast around the world, including on CBC, BBC, ARTE, and Canal+, winning 37 international awards in the process.

Throughout the years he has collaborated with organizations such as UNDP, European Commission, and Nonviolence International on a wide range of film and television projects, including national and regional campaigns, exploring issues such as human rights, women’s rights, and minority rights. One of his dramatic productions, T-Shirt (2006), is part of the permeant audiovisual collection of the Jewish Museum in Moscow (the largest Jewish museum in the world).

His 2007 production, “The Tale of Two Nazanins�, about a teenage girl imprisoned on death row in Iran, was broadcast on major international networks such as the BBC and CNN and is credited with igniting an international campaign that saved her life.

His 2004 European-Commission-backed media campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to get out the vote of Roma women succeeded beyond all expectations and saw a 74% increase in the participation of Roma women in the political processes of their respected countries in a sphere of eight (8) months.

Fazeli has been chosen twice by the Sundance Institute to take part in their International Filmmakers Award. He has lectured around the world on the ever-changing face of film production and has held workshops with students at various educational institutions such as SFU (Canada), SOAS (UK), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the European Film Academy.