Elaheh Nobakht

Elaheh Nobakht is an international film producer and distributor from Iran. She has received the Producers Network Prize for Promising Young Producers awarded by Cannes Marché du Film in the Co-Production market of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022. She is the CEO of the International Production and Distribution Film Company, ELI Image. She is also an active member of the Iranian Producers Association (IPA) and a member of the Iranian documentary producer Association. She has been a jury member of various film festivals, and the short and feature-length films she has produced have been selected for more than 65 international film festivals such as Berlinale, IDFA, ZagrebDox, HotDocs, etc. Nobakht was the distributor of the film Finding Farideh, which became Iran’s official entry to the 2020 Academy Awards.