Mandana Mac Dougall is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in Oakland, California. Her art works usually reflect her dreams and personal experiences interacting with the time and space that they take place in. On her long journey as an immigrant artist she has expanded her body of knowledge and experience in art through different pathways, as a visual designer, museum guide, documentarian, mentor and filmmaker. But it is behind the camera where she finds herself the most comfortable telling her stories and can connect with her audience in an intimate way and at its best.

Influenced by masters of existentialist cinema such as Mania Akbari, Laurie Anderson, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Andrei Tarkovsky and magical realist pioneers of literature such as Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach, she uses her camera as a tool to search for the Truth in every corner of the universe and usually prefers to let the story/mystery unfold in front of her camera in its own right time.