Behtash Sanaeeha was born in Shiraz, Iran. After completing his degree in civil engineering, he began writing scripts and directing short films, documentaries and commercials, and wrote and directed two animated series and a film for television. His first fiction feature was ‘Risk of Acid Rain’ (2015), with a script co-written by himself and Maryam Moghaddam, and later they co-directed the documentary feature ‘The Invincible Diplomacy of Mr Naderi’ (2017). Maryam Moghaddam was born in Tehran. She is an actress, screenwriter and director. She graduated from the Performing Arts School of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has worked as an actress in various Swedish theatres. She starred in a number of Iranian films, including Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi’s ‘Closed Curtain’, that won the Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival in 2013.