Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature directorial debut was A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), self-described as “the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western” and starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Dominic Rains, Mozhan Marno and Rome Shadanloo. The film built up significant buzz when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, eventually being picked up by Kino Lorber and distributed by VICE films. The film also won the “Revelations Prize” at the 2014 Deauville Film Festival and also won Carnet Jove Jury Award as well as the Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation from the Sitges Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Halekulani Golden Orchid award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

Her most recent short film A Little Suicide was a finalist of the 2012 Berlin Today Awards. Her 2011 film Pashmaloo (Hairy) screened at Berlinale, BFI and NYICFF and was sold to Arte Television. In 2010 her short film True Love, a comedy about sex and relationships, won audience award at the Milan Film Festival and her experimental short film Ana Lily Amirpour Likes This, which she wrote directed and acted in, was audience award winner of the 2010 Zero Film Festival.

Amirpour’s work has received multiple awards including the Dini Ostrov Award in Comedy writing, Grand Prize of the Bluecat Screenwriting Competition and the Adrienne Shelly Fellowship. She has been invited to participate in programs like Tribeca All Access, Fast Track with the LA Film Festival, The Film Independent screenwriting and directors labs and Berlinale Talent Campus.

Together with producing partner Sina Sayyah, she is co-founder of Say Ahh Productions in Los Angeles creating cutting edge film, television, music video and web content.