Arshia Zeinali

My name is Arshia Zeinali an actor & shortfilm maker from iran. I started my own art activities since 2001 by entering theater classes and the courses of the Young Cinema Association. In the first years, I started drawing cartoons alongside the training and accidentally, worked as an animator in a 100 second film called “Fishes dies at Sea,” and I won awards at the 100 Film Festival. In 2007, I was accepted in an action short movie acting test and played in it as an actor. After that, I went to university and studied software engineering for three years. I graduated in 2010 while I played and directed several theaters along my study course. Then, I went to the military service and continued my study of art and cinema. After completing my military career, I accepted in the theatre directing course with a good rank at the art faculty of Soore University in Tehran, which lasted for four years from 2012 to 2016. While I was studying, I played a lot of films, and I tended to acting in cinema movies. At the end of my studies in university, I got acquainted with the camera relatively well, and given the directing experience in the years when I was working as a cartoonist, along with playing in short and long films, I started making short films. I participated in many international festivals and received several awards. I think this is just a start for the way I chose. I hope to play and create many films again and again.