Ghazal Partou is an Iranian-Canadian actress, director, and multidisciplinary artist. She has received numerous awards, including the "Lead Actress" Special Mention from the Five Continents International Film Festival, the Best Acting award from the Ark Gate Film Festival, the Toronto Arts Foundation/TELUS "Newcomer Artist" award, the Persbook Contemporary Art award, and the National Sculpture Biennial award in Tehran.
Her most recent work, the short film "Amphibious," which she wrote, directed, and produced, successfully participated in fourteen international film festivals and received several awards. These include the Award of Distinction from the Canada International Shorts Film Festival and Best Empowering Movie at the Vienna Indie Short Film Festival in 2023. It also received the Best Indie Short Award from the International Tokyo Cinema Awards and two Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress awards at the New World Film Festival in 2024. Additionally, it was a semifinalist at the Rio de Janeiro World Film Festival and the Dubai Independent Film Festival in 2023, and the Dumbo Film Festival in 2024. It was nominated at the Toronto International Women Film Festival in 2024 and as an Outstanding Dramatic Film at the International Climax Film Festival in 2024.
Ghazal earned her B.A. in acting in Iran and continued her education at the Toronto Film School. Her extensive knowledge of visual art and drama has empowered her to broaden her creative horizons.
She aims to establish an engaging connection with her audience and spark fresh inquiries in their minds. By reimagining and transforming familiar concepts, she uses them as a means of fresh expression, deeply rooted in daily life yet ultimately revealing and narrating the concealed layers beneath those familiar themes.
Ghazal has actively participated in various thought-provoking artistic projects, serving as an actor, performance artist, director, creative director, and designer. Her overarching aspiration is to discover a universal artistic language that forges connections at the core of humanity, transcending race, language, nationality, and ethnicity to narrate and illuminate all those untold stories of human life.