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Mor Dovrat is an actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She has undergone extensive education, most of which has been based in theater making and acting, in both cinema and theater. Dovrat attended high school in Israel from 1997 to 2001, where she began her education in the arts with a major in theater. Between 2007 and 2010, she continued to study theater at the Sofy Moskowitch studio in Tel-aviv, Israel. To expand her theater education further, Dovrat attended a year-long workshop from 2009 to 2010 that specialized in on-camera acting, where she was instructed by Moshe Mizrahi, a director who has previously won an Oscar for his work in film. Finally, from 2013 to 2016, Dovrat rounded out her theatrical education by mastering in Physical Theater in Switzerland at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri.

Hasti Saadi is a thirty-five year old Iranian photographer, director, and screenwriter. She was born in and grew up in the city of Shiraz in Iran, but she moved to Toronto, Canada, with her family at the age of seventeen. In Canada, Saadi was able to pursue her passions of image arts and design by studying photography at George Brown College and filmmaking at Ryerson University. However, after receiving an initial education in photography and filmmaking, Saadi chose to move back to Iran when she was twenty five years old. She moved to the city of Tehran, Iran, where she continued to follow her dreams of becoming a filmmaker. In Iran, Saadi studied filmmaking further by taking scriptwriting courses under the mentorship of Taghvaee, a renowned Iranian filmmaker whose work is well known around the world. Saadi also participated in a filmmaking workshop that was instructed by Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami, who has also garnered international praise for his work. During her time participating in the workshop, which lasted for one year, Saadi wrote and created two documentaries.