Granaz Moussavi is an Australian-Iranian Writer/Director. Her 2002 Honors film A Short Film About Colour won the Flinders University Best Director Award. In 2006 she was awarded the Holding Redlich prize at the SPA Conference, allowing her to travel to Cannes Film Festival,pitching her project to the market there. Her award-winning debut feature film My Tehran for Sale (2009) was the first film collaboration between Iran and Australia. It premiered at the Adelaide FF, was an official selection for the Toronto International FF, also screening at Vancouver International FF, Pusan International FF, International Film festival Mannheim-Heidelberg among others. It also won the won the Australian IF Award for Best Independent Film. Born in Tehran, Granaz’s first poems were published when she was 16 years old and she has since continued writing and publishing poetry in various magazines and anthologies, firstly in Iran and then other countries ever since. To date, her poetry is translated and published in nine languages. She has studied film in Australia, including a postgraduate degree in film editing from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS). In between feature films, Granaz has also made several short films and documentaries.