Kamran Heidari was born in Gachsaran, near Shiraz, in 1978. 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 medium-length documentary was screened in many festivals around the world, among which Busan International Film Festival and Rotterdam.