Iran, USA

Zia Mohajerjasbi is an Iranian-American filmmaker from Seattle, a city that has served as the primary focus of his work. He has directed acclaimed music videos for Macklemore, Blue Scholars, Jake One and Common Market, as well as a 2007 mockumentary short with New-York based standup comedian Hari Kondabolu, Manoj. In 2009, Zia became the youngest winner ever of the “Genius Award,” presented by The Stranger, a Seattle weekly. In 2015, he wrote and directed the award-winning narrative short Hagereseb, and is also the cinematographer and director of an ongoing storytelling series, The Charcoal Sky. Know Your Place, which Zia wrote and directed, was shot on location in Seattle and is his debut feature film.

Filmography

Know Your Place (2022)