Soudabeh Moradian (Persian:سودابه مرادیان) is an Iranian-American independent filmmaker. A number of her movies have been in official selection of various international film festivals and many of them won awards. She has made many documentary series about Iranian rural women, and some independent documentaries about "war and madness" such as "Doomsday Machine"," Story Of The Land On Ashes","Mahin", "Voices Against Them" and some other narrative and docufiction films and series like "The Leader of Caravan","My Name Is Tomorrow" and "Les Chroniques d'iran". She made her first full feature-length narrative called Polaris in 2014 in Los Angeles and Seattle starring Bahram Radan, Alicja Bachleda, Elisabeth Röhm and Coby Ryan McLaughlin. The subjects of her movies are mainly based on social issues, women and psychological impacts of war. She's also been teaching at film schools and colleges such as the Art Institute of California, College of the Canyons, Columbia College Hollywood, etc. She is currently a film professor at Syracuse University, New York . Life She was born in Tehran-Iran and started her career in directing, screen writing and editing in 1996 . She graduated from Tehran University of Art with a B.S in cinema in 1996 and got an MFA degree in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts in 2015. She immigrated to the United States in 2009 and has been working as a screenwriter, director, editor and film professor in California and New York. Films Polaris - Feature - 2017 Writing and Directing -2020 Reframe Stamp Recipient -Won the best feature at Culver City Film Festival - Los Angeles -Nominated for the best feature, best director and best actress at California Women's Film Festival - Los Angeles I Was Born Yesterday - Documentary - 2014 Directing and Editing -Won the best documentary at Barcelona Planet Film Festival (Spain), European Film Festival (Russia), Spotlight Documentary Film Award (USA) - Official selection of: Los Angeles CineFest (USA), Sydney World Film festival (Australia), Roma Cinemadoc (Italy), Barcelona Planet film festival (Spain), Toronto film week (Canada), Lisbon International film festival (Portugal), Venice film week, Silent Movie World film festival (Ukraine) Burnt City - Experimental Documentary - 2012 Directing and Editing With Iranian - Documentary series - 2010 Screen writing, Directing and Editing Les Chroniques d'Iran- Documentary series for Arte TV - 2009 Doomsday Machine (Machine Rooze Ghiamat) – Documentary - 2006~2009 Screen writing, Directing and Editing - Official Selection of UKIFF