Arash T. Riahi, was born in Iran in 1972 and moved to Austria in 1982. He pursued degrees in film and human sciences, and freelanced from 1995 until 2002 at ORF shows: Nitebox, aktuelle Kultur, and Kunst-Stücke. In 1997, he founded a film and media production company called Golden Girls Film Production. He worked on documentaries, commercials, music videos, short films, and experimental films which received over 70 awards in total.
His first feature-length film was the motion picture documentary DIE SOUVENIRS DES HERRN X. Internationally awarded, the documentary EXILE FAMILY MOVIE was his second motion picture. His first featur film EIN AUGENBLICK FREIHEIT (Wega Film & Les Films Du Losange, 2008), received 31 international awards and was the official Austrian candidate for the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 2010.
In 2010, he began his work as a group leader and dramaturg at MEDIA/Creative Europe Programm SOURCES 2, which includes guest lectures, and coaching at Uni Wien, Goethe Institut Dublin, various film festivals, and ORF. In addition to that, he teaches non-fictional dramaturgy and production at Filmakademie Wien since 2014.
Arash`s latest film EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH has received the Max Ophüls Publikumspreis in 2020 and a Roy award for best cinema Film in 2021.