Mohammadreza Eyni
Filmmaker
Mohammadreza Eyni is the Grand Jury Award winner of the World Cinema Documentary category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for his feature documentary, Cutting Through Rocks. A Sundance and Tribeca Alumnus, Mohammadreza is a director, producer, and cinematographer, whose career and cinematic approach bridges boundaries and elevates underrepresented voices, connecting diverse perspectives globally.
As the co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., Mohammadreza has produced and directed international films, such as his co-directing contribution on the feature-length documentary, Convergence, a Netflix Original, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Mohammadreza’s co- directed short Our Iranian Lockdown, featured on The Guardian, was nominated for an IDA Award. His collaboration as a writer and producer on a fiction film has recently been developed at HFPA and Film Independent.
A 2021 Firelight Media fellow, 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee and Tribeca Film Institute alum, Mohammadreza raduated with an MFA in cinema from Tehran University of Fine Arts.
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Mohammadreza Eyni
Filmmaker
Mohammadreza Eyni is the Grand Jury Award winner of the World Cinema Documentary category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for his feature documentary, Cutting Through Rocks. A Sundance and Tribeca Alumnus, Mohammadreza is a director, producer, and cinematographer, whose career and cinematic approach bridges boundaries and elevates underrepresented voices, connecting diverse perspectives globally.
As the co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., Mohammadreza has produced and directed international films, such as his co-directing contribution on the feature-length documentary, Convergence, a Netflix Original, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Mohammadreza’s co- directed short Our Iranian Lockdown, featured on The Guardian, was nominated for an IDA Award. His collaboration as a writer and producer on a fiction film has recently been developed at HFPA and Film Independent.
A 2021 Firelight Media fellow, 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee and Tribeca Film Institute alum, Mohammadreza raduated with an MFA in cinema from Tehran University of Fine Arts.
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