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 and is currently working on her second book which received the Asian Artist’s Fund and CLNZ funding.
Ghazaleh is currently working on a number of film and television projects. She’s directed on numerous television shows including Settling (TV3), Small Town Scandal (SKY/BBC), The Brokenwood Mysteries (TVNZ/Acorn), Miles from Nowhere (SKY TV) and Shortland Street. She was one of the writer/directors on the feature Kāinga, which premiered at the NZIFF and Melbourne International Film Festival where 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.