About
Ghazaleh Gol is an Iranian-New Zealand writer, actor, filmmaker and Fulbright scholar.
Her first book of personal essays The Girl From Revolution Road was published by Allen & Unwin after winning a CLNZ/NZ Society of Authors Grant. She has since contributed chapters to various anthologies.
Ghazaleh is currently working on a number of film and television projects as a writer and director including her first feature script Goodbye Banu with the NZFC and Miss Conceptions Film and as a director for SPP's long running drama Shortland Street. She directed the first season of the dramedy Miles from Nowhere (SKYTV) and was one of the writer/directors on the feature Kāinga, which premiered at the NZIFF and Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022. She was selected for the MIFF Accelerator Program in 2022.
Ghazaleh completed a PhD with creative practice in Media and Communication with a focus on Iranian diasporic cinema . She has studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California, where she also worked for the Sundance Institute.