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Bahram Afshari was born on 27 May 1987 in Hamedan, Iran. He is an actor and director, known for Fossil (2023), Capital (2011) and Simple Worker Needed (2017).

Parviz Parastui was born on June 24, 1955 in the village of Charli in the Hamedan providence of Iran to a farming family. They moved to Tehran in pursuit of a better life when he was three years old. He began acting on stage at age fifteen by joining the theatrical group of director, Bahram Beyzaie. Later, he joined Kouch Theater Group through fellow actor, Behzad Farahani. He performed at Youth Palace and the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults for years. Parastui received his high school diploma in Biology at age 19, and at age 20 and 21 received awards from Youth Palace for his performance in "Kiosk" and "Submitters," respectfully. After the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he earned his degree from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Dramatic Arts and worked as a judicial receptionist prior to becoming a full-time actor.

His debut in cinema was in Land of Lovers (1984) (Lovers Reunion), which earned him the Diploma of Honor for Best Actor in a Supporting Role from Tehran's Fajr International Film Festival at age 28. Ever since, he has played the leading role in numerous movies of different genres from comedy to drama, including the lowlife but dependable Javad in Snowman (1995) (Snowman), which was banned in Iran for many years, the traumatophobic imposter Sadeq Meshkini in controversial film Leily Is with Me (1996) (Leily is with Me), which earned him the Diploma of Honor for Best Actor in a Lead Role from Farj Film Festival, the scientist who's brain gets put in the body of the laundry detergent company that would not hire him in the unique, popular, and critically claimed comedy, The Changed Man (1998) (The Wrong Man), Haj Kazem, the former commander of the Iran-Iraq war, in The Glass Agency (1998), which brought him his first Crystal Simorgh award in the Best Lead Actor from Fajr Film Festival. His performance in The Red Ribbon (1999) is also noteworthy. The film that made him known worldwide is the comedy The Lizard (2004) where he played the role of a fugitive thief dressed as a mullah to escape imprisonment. He received the Special Jury Award for his performance from Fajr Film Festival. In Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2005), he played a blind man who falls in love with someone other than his wife when he gets the chance to see again. He won his second Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his performance in that film from Fajr Film Festival and another Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in In the Name of the Father (2006).

Parastui has worked with some of the finest directors of Iranian cinema such as Davood Mir-Bagheri, Kamal Tabrizi, Mohamad Reza Honarmand, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Fereydoun Jeyrani, Ahmad Reza Darvish, and Majid Majidi.

Mehdi Moinzadeh was born on 12 April 1978 in Hamedan, Iran. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod (2006) and Berlin, Berlin (2002).

Faghiheh Soltani was born on 20 August 1974 in Hamedan, Iran. She is an actress, known for Pink (2003), The Blue-Veiled (1995) and The Miracle of Smile (1997).

Shervin Hosseini is an Iranian actor, graphic designer and art director. He was born in Hamedan, Iran, and he graduated from the Hamedan Culture and Art University, with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Graphic Design in 2007.

Since graduation his professional career has developed from freelancing as a graphic designer and art director to managing social and cultural projects in the community.

Official member of IGDN, IGDS (Iranian Graphic Designers Society), Ico-D & Pecha Kucha

Farhad Khan Mohammadi was born in 1944 in Hamedan, Iran. He was an actor, known for Senator (1983), The Hostage (1996) and The Viper (1993). He died on 19 September 2008 in Tehran, Iran.

Hossein Setareh was born on 23 August 1966 in Hamedan, Iran. Hossein is a cinematographer and director, known for Media Morphs: Conspiracy (2010), Life in Parentheses (2010) and Media Morphs: Propaganda (2010).

Hashem Rohani was born on 11 August 1950 in Hamedan, Iran. He is an actor, known for Checkmate (2010), The Death Carnival (2009) and The Changed Man (1998).

Manouchehr Moshiri was born in Colappa, Hamedan, to Ismail Moshiri and Roghayyeh Minoobakhsh. Manouchehr spent his younger years in Hamedan and later Tehran the capital city. He graduated from Tehran University as socialist Researcher and later from Iran Governments Television and Radio University in cinema (camera-works). Among his early efforts as director and camera-man were: Qorveh (1979), Our story (1979), Story of Pain (1979), as Director, Camera-man and producer: Farming in Damghan [2 Episodes] (1980), With Earth to Earth (1980), earth-Pain-Germination (1981), as Director, Writer and Camera-man: Mountain Life (1983), Main Shahreqord Mosque (1383), as Director, Camera-man, researcher and writer: Shahreqord Roof of Iran (1984), Where is my Home? (1984), as director, Camera-man and researcher: Seven Days Dating, Two Years Experience [2 Episodes] (1984), Joint work with Rakhshan Bani Etemad: Report 71 (1992), From Spring to Spring (1985), Joint work with Rakhshan Bani Etemad and Pirooz kalantari: Who Do You show This Movies To? (1986), as director, Camera-man, producer and designer: The World is My Home (1986) a biographical movie about well-known Iranian poet Nima Yushij. After Nima Yushij, he continued making biographical movies by: Remember the Dead Candle about great researcher and creator of a famous Persian language Dictionary Dr. Mohammad Moin (1994). Next, he continued with another biographical movie You cannot Imagine the Pain of love I Experienced a bibliography movie about another well-known Iranian researcher and creator of few volumes Persian dictionary Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1995). After making educational documentary series called: Basics of Debate (1995) as Producer, Director and designer and From Dust (1995) as director, Camera-man and researcher, he continued creating biographical movies with Geography of Love about Abbas Sahab, Father of Iran's geography as director, camera-man and designer (1997) and Language of Silence about Dr. Badrozzaman Qarib (1998) as Director, Camera-man and designer. Next he continued with with Pants kindness about Dr. Ahmad Qahraman (1999). Between Biographical movies, he made another Documentary series [10 Episodes] named Peace with Mathematics. He then returned back to his favorite genre which is Biographical movies with a movie about Dr. Mohammad hassan Ganji named Last Rain of the Year (2000) and A Greater Love about Dr. Bahadori Nejad (2001) as Director. Next he made his 26th movie about Dr. Abdulkarim Qarib named A research on Earth's mysteries (2003). Moshiri then made a movie as writer, director and scene designer about Dr. Parviz Shahriari named Love to Teach (2003) and The Furious Silent about Well-Known Poet Molana (Roami). His next biographical movie as director and writer was about Dr. Kamaluddin Jinab (2004) and another about Dr. Abolqasem Siah Qalam named Nostalgic as Bud (2004). He create an industrial documentary about Khuzestan's Alloy Steel (2005) before his next biographical movie Love is Most Valuable about Dr. Seyyed Jaffar Shahidi (2006). His other movie about Dr. Shahidi was: ... and i am the diver, Sea Tavern (2007). Moshiri Continued his active Film making life with his 34th Movie called: and i Left my Youth back in Inqilab (Revolution) Street (2007). Next he worked on another biographical movie about Mohammad Ali Amir Jahid named Thousand stories of Amir Jahid (2008). Love and Pen is his 37th documentary about Professor Fazlollah Reza (2005-2008) and another Biographical movie on Dr. Mohammad hassan ganji named Hundred Years (2011) as Director, Researcher, Producer and Designer. Beside his Films and Biographical movies, Moshiri founded the first Iranian Workshop on Documentary with help of Iran's Association of Documentary Directors, which held by participating young documentary makers from all around the country in Tehran. Few Iranian well-known Documentary movie makers, have been studied in this institute, like: Mohammad Baqeri, Loqman Khaliqi and Mahmoud Rahmani.

Farhad Kosarnezhad was born on 30 May 1982 in Hamedan, Iran. He is a writer and director, known for The Veiled Sorrow in the Depth of the Calm of the Whale (2012), The Room I Had in Time (2001) and In the Vague Presence of Time (2006).

Soheil Bayat born in Toyserkan, Iran is an actor, producer and composer. Soheil Bayat started his career When he was a teenager and with invitation of Jafar Panahi in 2016, he officially entered the field of acting and producing. His nickname in cyberspace is "Soheilxorg" and he is known as actor with shiny acting on his past movies and TV shows. When he was young he started to producing movie for cinema. Soheil began acting in the early 2015s and made her breakthrough in social genre the film Shenaye Parvaneh (2020) and the film Yaghi (2022). Finally in 2021 he won the best man actor in Iranian 30 Morgh anniversary.

Ali Tabatabai was born on 14 September 1930 in Hamedan, Iran. He died on 22 July 1980 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.