Amin Pakparvar is an Iranian documentary filmmaker and film critic studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has created several short films that address racial and gender discrimination, state violence, and environmental crises in contemporary Iranian history. These films have been screened at several Oscar-qualifying film festivals in Iran, Africa, and the U.S. Amin’s writings on the subjects, languages, and aesthetics of Middle Eastern cinema focus on visual anthropology through an intersectional feminist lens.