- Attended Iran University of Science and Technology.
- Learned the basics of filmmaking from his neighbor Ebrahim Hatamikia while tutoring him Windows XP.
- Graduated from Bashir High School in Tehran.
- Member of ASIFA (Association Internationale De Film d'Animation) since 2002.
- Member of Young Cineast House Director's Guild since 2003.
- He has made four short films for IUST's Film Center: The Incredible Story of the Computer Campus (2000), Conjure (2001), The Last Night on the Earth (2002), Hypnotism (2004).
- After wrapping the shoot in Persepolis, Discovery Channel was so happy with the footage that they immediately started working on a second film. It was an extended version of the original "Unearthed" (Season 9, episode 1) about Persepolis. Hesam went back to Shiraz 4 months later to shoot the standalone documentary TV Special for Discovery.
- He founded Persian Magic Art Group along with two other classmates in 2000. Their first production was "Last Night on Earth", a Sci-Fi student short fiction about the final hours on the planet earth.
- He was the festival director at "North Hollywood International Film Festival (NoHoIFF)". The first edition took place in November 2022 in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
- Hesam is a member of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) since 2022.
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