Mahyad Tousi Pro

Mahyad Tousi is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans film, television, video art, and interactive media. After starting as a conflict-zone documentarian, he’s a rare artist working in Hollywood and the art world. His latest feature, REMOTE (2022), starring Okwui Okpokwasili and co-created with Mika Rottenberg, premiered at the New York Film Festival and Tate Modern and is now part of major European museum collections. Tousi is currently working on the follow up to REMOTE and directing CURA, a pioneering documentary designed as a mind-altering healing ritual. CURA follows three Amazonian tribes in their sacred role as forest guardians, weaving traditional healing rituals with mind-altering sensory experiences to reveal humanity's deep connection to the rainforest.

Tousi founded Starfish, a non-profit organization championing underrepresented artist-entrepreneurs and their culture-defining ideas. He serves on the advisory boards of MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality and Get Media Savvy, a collective advancing media literacy through pop culture and education.