In our production house, we specialize in creating socially impactful projects across a variety of mediums including art, design, film-making, journalism, and written publications.
Our team is dedicated to bringing these projects to life with a focus on promoting positive change and inspiring others to make a difference.
Meet Our Team
Elahe Zivaldar, Co-Founder & Creative Director
An award-winning Iranian artist, architectural designer, journalist, and documentary film maker, Elahe Zivardar currently lives in Arizona, United States, where she obtained refugee status in 2019. After fleeing Iran, she was detained on the remote island of the Republic of Nauru for attempting to seek asylum in Australia from 2013 to 2019. During her detention in Nauru, she was highly active in using photos and video to document the horrific treatment and conditions endured by people seeking asylum and imprisoned offshore. An artist using diverse techniques including painting, photography and documentary filmmaking, Zivardar seeks to depict and raise awareness on how refugee, stateless and migrant minorities are treated throughout the migration process, especially at borders. In addition to her artwork, she is active as an advisor to international refugee rights campaigns and organizations in Australia, the UK and US.
Mehran Ghadiri, Co-Founder & Writer
Mehran Ghadiri, husband of Elahe Zivardar, worked in Nauru in 2015 and again from 2018 to 2020 in economic development and community engagement roles within the Australian offshore border regime. He also has years of first-hand experience working in a broad range of roles supporting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to resettle in Australia. With his background in political science and international relations, as well as his unique insights into the inner workings of Australia’s refugee system both offshore and onshore, he brings a comprehensive understanding of the global interests that exacerbate and manipulate refugee flows for financial and political gain. Ghadiri is currently authoring a detailed analysis of the political, economic and societal effects of Australia’s policies in Nauru, as well as producing a documentary film on this topic with Elahe Zivardar.
Omid Tofighian, Key Collaberator
Omid Tofighian is an award-winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, popular culture, displacement and discrimination. He is adjunct lecturer at University of New South Wales and honorary research fellow at Birkbeck Law, University of London. His publications include Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (Palgrave 2016); translation of Behrouz Boochani’s multi-award-winning autobiographical novel No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador 2018); co-editor of special issues for journals Literature and Aesthetics (2011), Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (2019) and Southerly (2021); and co-translator/co-editor of Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani (Bloomsbury 2023).
Hessom Razavi, Key Supporter
Hessom Razavi is a doctor and writer based in Perth. In 2015-’16, he visited Australia’s offshore detention centres in a medical capacity, and later wrote about these experiences as the ‘Behrouz Boochani Fellow’ for the Australian Book Review. In 2024 Hessom will publish a critical essay for Penguin Random House on Australia’s response to people seeking asylum.