Writer/Director, JIN

Hamoun Dolatshahi is a Kurdish-Iranian refugee filmmaker whose work explores identity, language, and the diasporic experience through a humanist lens. He completed his MFA in Directing at UCLA in 2024, where he developed JIN—a sci-fi drama rooted in Kurdish feminism and artificial intelligence, and winner of the 2023 Sloan Film Grant. Hamoun has directed narrative shorts, music videos, and TV specs, and worked on the A24/Netflix series BEEF. He is also a community organizer, using media to amplify refugee and immigrant voices in the fight for justice.