Ghasem Ebrahimian came to New York to study filmmaking and graduated from SUNY at Purchase in 1979. In 1980, he co-founded Ebradfilms, which produced over forty documentaries for RAI-Italian and French Television, including works on Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Burton and Marguerite Yourcenar. His feature-length film, The Suitors, was an Official Selection at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival - Director's Fortnight. He has taught filmmaking at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City, and since 1997, has collaborated with Shirin Neshat on filmed video installations.