Shoresh Kalantari is an award-winning and Oscar-nominated Iranian-Dutch filmmaker and producer that has worked as an independent producer and director for the last 30 years. His short film “Meaning of Night” was Oscar nominated in 1996. His films have been showed in many film festivals around the world. He studied film directing in the Netherlands and later film production in Montreal, Canada. He led the Film/Video/Multimedia Unit for the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) until 2014 producing weekly award-winning Television shows, film documentaries and fiction films in partnership with Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) related to human rights issues in the war-torn country. He also trained many young Afghans award-winning filmmakers, journalists, photojournalists that have contributed to rebuild the audiovisual memory of Afghanistan.