Kamran Heidari was born in Gachsaran, near Shiraz, Iran, in 1977. He is a freelance documentary filmmaker and photographer, with an interest in street photography, graffiti, and ethno-music. His work focuses on film and photography about the people of Shiraz (Fars Province) and the South of Iran. My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns (2012), his first feature length documentary was screened in many festivals around the world, among which Busan International Film Festival and Rotterdam. His latest work Ali Agha premiered at IDFA in 2017. «hle Hawa, his current project, would be his fifth feature length film.