Born in 1970 in Kerman, Iran, Mansoor Behnam is of the generation that experienced the period before and after the 1979 revolution there. He studied English Literature at Shahid Bahonar University in Kerman in the late 1980s and continued his studies for an MA in Theatre at the University of Art and Architecture Iran in 1995.

Mansoor’s experimentation with intermediality is reflected in both his writing and filmmaking: a hybrid combination of genres. He has co-produced several experimental films which have been screened in film festivals; his first co-production “The Well” (2001) was selected at the Baran International Short Film Festival as the best experimental short. In 2004 he wrote “Peep Show,” a series of postmodern adaptations of some of Rumi’s tales into cut-out animations, broadcast on Iranian TV to celebrate Persian New Year. Behnam immigrated to Canada in 2006 and completed an MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario in 2010, working on “Pre-cinematic Spectacle and the Adaptation of A Thousand and One Nights.”