Babak Zand is a director and filmmaker.
He started as a runner at RSA Films before becoming Ridley Scott’s assistant and then a freelance assistant director working with Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Mike Leigh, Alan Parker, David Bailey, Mehdi Norowzian, Graham Rose, and many others.
He soon began to develop his own film projects, including music videos for Asian Dub Foundation and Nightmares on Wax, which won prizes at the Edinburgh Film Festival. He also directed the award-winning TV show Top Gear for the BBC.
He continues to make commercials, corporate films, and global campaigns for brands such as HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Unilever, Barilla, McDonald's, Lipton, Nestlé, Nescafé, Honda, Land Rover, General Motors, Samsung, and Nokia. He also enjoys making music videos, fashion films, documentaries, video artwork, and installations, with exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery and Musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration. In 2015 he travelled to Dharamsala to film the Dalai Lama for the VR film Inner Selfie, which premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest and was licensed to Hulu and Oculus.
Babak has a strong photographic style that gives his work striking emotional intensity. His passion for natural imagery brings surprising depth and richness of character to each scene.
