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Leila Khalilzadeh is a PhD student in Film and Media at Queen’s University. Leila's work examines memory, migration, gendered histories, and diasporic screen media through documentary, fiction, and animation. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Cinema in Iran and working as a filmmaker, researcher, writer, and lecturer, she immigrated to Canada in 2015, completed an MFA in Film Production at Concordia University, and developed a sustained research-creation practice. Her films have screened at international festivals including the Berlinale, Reykjavík International Film Festival, and Festival du nouveau cinéma, and she was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2021. She has also developed curatorial projects such as Spotlight on Iranian Art Films (Festival International du Film sur l'Art, 2020), a digital curation for MOMENTA Biennale (2020), and A Retrospective of Iranian Short Films (Concordia University, 2018). Bringing together moving-image production, curation, and archival research, her current interests focus on counter-archival approaches and the recovery of underrepresented histories in Iranian and diasporic media cultures.