Some Stories Are Dangerous to Tell!
Hossein Martin Fazeli is a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose work confronts power, preserves memory, and centers voices history tries to erase.
Through Fazeli Films, he produces documentaries and narrative films that explore the human experience with fearless imagination, and moral urgency.
The WHY?
The world is in turmoil. Forests burn, rivers choke, voices are silenced, and injustice spreads like wildfire. Poverty, violence, inequality—they are not distant problems. They are here. Now.
And yet, we have power. The stories we tell can pierce silence. The films we make can awaken conscience. The poems we write can spark action.
At Fazeli Films, we follow the stories the status quo tries to ignore—giving voice to those history sets out to erase.
Let's Work Together!
"Cinema is truth 24 times per second".
Transforming the world, one film at a time
The multi-award-winning “I Am Gitxsan” follows Phoenix Apperloo, a recent high school graduate reconnecting with his Indigenous heritage in Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada. Inspired by encounters with residential school survivors, he writes a heartfelt letter to the Prime Minister of Canada about the injustices faced by his people.
With expert insights from the renowned Dr. Gabor Maté, viewers are drawn into a world of resilience and resistance, where the Gitxsan courageously confront their past through fierce protests and relentless legal battles.
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PHOOLAN (Post-Production)
PHOOLAN is a film about one of the most influential and controversial woman of our time. It tells the complete, untold, true story of Phoolan Devi, known to many as the Bandit Queen, who became a social justice warrior and a female Robin Hood.
Her life is truly the stuff of legend and, today, more than 2 decades after her death, the name ‘Phoolan Devi’ still stirs fierce emotion. Who really was Phoolan Devi? A misunderstood rebel with a cause, or a ruthless revenge-seeking murderer? A champion of the poor who fought oppression, or a terrorist? An unlikely hero who took justice into her own hands, or, as some in India believe, a bloodthirsty incarnation of Goddess Durga?
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OUR COUNTRY, OUR NAME (Mid-Production)
“Our Country, Our Name” is a feature-length documentary that examines the darker side of Canadian foreign policy. It challenges the popular belief that Canada is a force for good, highlighting its involvement in atrocities from the Boer War to Haiti’s 2004 coup. Through Yves Engler’s work, dubbed by Georgia Straight as the Noam Chomsky of Canada, the film aims to shed light on these hidden actions and spark a national dialogue on Canada’s treatment of others and how it can improve its global standing.
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Woman on the Front Line (2015)
This essential documentary film focuses on Iranian women’s rights activists who are on the forefront of a decentralized but surprisingly powerful movement. These women are part of the largest, non-violent movement in the Middle East that survives within the heart of a bitterly anti-female theocratic state.
In this film, the first of its kind, these activists speak of their struggle for gender equality, and the price they have to pay for it. They also speak of their inspiring achievements in a state where misogyny is the order of the day.
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"Inspiring Change Through the Power of Cinema."
MY STORY
Hossein Martin Fazeli has spent over two decades directing, producing, and writing both fiction and documentary films across North America and around the globe. His work has been broadcast worldwide on networks including CBC, BBC, ARTE, and Canal+, winning 45 international awards for its impact and craft.
In 2007, his production The Tale of Two Nazanins—the story of a teenage girl imprisoned on death row in Iran—aired on major networks such as BBC and CNN and sparked an international campaign that ultimately saved her life, demonstrating the transformative power of storytelling.
AWARDS
Fazeli Films’ socially conscious filmmaking has so far been honored with 45+ international awards!
CONTACT
LOCATION
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
- fazeli[@]fazelifilms.com
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- www.fazeliflims.com
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