Massoud Bakhshi was born in 1972 in Tehran. He is a graduate of agricultural engineering who subsequently studied photography and film-making. He began collaborating with printed media in 1991, and is well known as a writer, critic, and translator.
Since 1995 he bagan screenwriting and writing narration for documentaries(or documentary series) and has till now collaborated with five of them. In 1998, he began directing short films and documentaries, and since then has made six documentaries, a fictional-documetary, an experimental film, and also two documentary series for T.V. Three long-fictional scripts and eight short documentary and fictional scripts are among his output.
Bakhshi's films have been screened in various film festivals in Europe and US. Apart from winning awards from Iranian T.V. and Iranian Film Writers and Critics Society, he has also won the Silver Plaque Award from Video-Montecatini Film Festival, and the Medallion of Austrian International Film Festival for his much successful film, Identification of a Woman.