Hesam Eslami is a Tehran-based filmmaker who has been directing and producing documentaries for international television and cinema since 2013. He earned his BFA and MA in Cinema from Tehran University of Art. His recent works focus on the margins of Iranian society. His first feature, The 20th Circuit Suspect (2017), premiered at Hot Docs; his second, The Marriage Project (2020), co-directed with Atieh Attarzadeh, premiered at Visions du Réel; and his third, A Band of Dreamers and a Judge (2023), premiered at IDFA.