Born in 1960 in Tehran Farzad Motamen has a B.A in cinema studies from Rice University of Houston (Texas). He started his career by making documentary films in 1983. He worked persistently and made more than 40 documentary films during 1983 till 1993 including THE BANDAR'S KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (1991) and JEYRAN (1992). SEVEN ACTS was Farzad Motamen's debut feature film which won two awards in Fajr Film Festival (including Best Actress). WHITE NIGHTS(2003) was his second feature based on Dostoyevsky's story which won five awards including the best film from the Khaneh Cinema's Awards. He is currently a lecturer in the Film Department of University of Tehran.