The Why
If life is to be sustained on the planet, we have to fundamentally change our ways and behaviors. From global warming to extreme poverty to sexual violence and gender inequality, the challenges we are facing are both serious and urgent. But so is our power to change the status quo and create a better world!
Stories we tell, poems we write, and films we make help achieve that goal.
The What - Featured Projects
Testimonial
Fazeli’s cinema is deeply personal and yet unequivocally universal. It is this quality that makes his films entertaining and thought-provoking at the same time. It is no small feat in the more-or-less Black & White cinema of today!
El Mundo
Fazeli brilliantly captures the mood of the times we live in.
Alex Leo Serban
Cahiers du Cinéma"A film is no good unless the camera is the eye in the head of a poet". Orson Wells
Winning Awards
Fazeli Films is a multi-award-winning, Vancouver-based, film production company. We combine our passion for storytelling and philanthropy to create memorable, meaningful video and film content for nonprofits, government organizations, ethical businesses, and everything in between. Our films have won many awards, but our real success is captivating audiences and raising awareness about real-life heroes and sheroes as well as critical social justice issues of the day.
Our production, ‘The Tale of the Two Nazanins’, about a teenage girl imprisoned on death row in Iran, was broadcast on major international networks such as the BBC and CNN and is credited with igniting an international campaign that saved her life.
Our 2004 European-Commission-backed campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to get out the vote of Roma women succeeded beyond all expectations and saw a %74 increase in the participation of the target group in the political process of their respected countries in a sphere of eight (8) months.
The company is being run by Hossein Fazeli. He has been an A-List director in North America for many years and has shot in more than two dozen countries. Mr. Fazeli is an avid human rights and environmental rights activist. He has lectured around the world about the power of film to change our lives and has held workshops with students at various educational institutions such as SFU (Vancouver), SOAS (London), Aarhus University (Aarhus), and the European Film Academy (Copenhagen).