Hira Sheraz is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, born and raised in Peshawar, Pakistan. She got her MFA from the AFI Conservatory. Her debut short screened at the Oscar-qualifying Tasveer Film Festival and won Best Short Film at the Muslim International Film Festival (Toronto). Her shorts The Round Lake (Novo Amor grant) and Solatia premiered at Austin Film Festival and Red Sea International Film Festival, with screenings at UN Women Deliver and Tasveer. She is a recipient of the AAUW International Fellowship and the Indigenous Voices Film Grant by DC Dogs. Her feature screenplay The Boy and the Cobbler was a Humanitas Carol Mendelsohn Drama Award and Austin Film Festival Semifinalist, and Model College for Girls was selected for the Tasveer Film Market. Hira trained as a 35mm projectionist under Tom Ruff. She recently shot a short produced by Zarrar Kahn (whose feature screened at Cannes Film Festival), Mina Hussain, and Carol Ann Noronha. Her documentary Dragons of Wakhi was featured in Forbes.