Mehrnoosh Fetrat (مهرنوش فطرت) is an award-winning filmmaker from Iran who focuses on social justice, war, and immigration. She currently works as an assistant professor at Northwestern University and has taught at several other universities, including Temple, Drexel, The College of New Jersey, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, and Saint Joseph's University.

Her passion for cinema made her change her background from Electrical Engineering to Film. She got her MA in Cinema Studies from Tehran University of Art and MFA in Film Production from Temple University. She received The University Fellowship during her education in Philadelphia.

Mehrnoosh has written, produced, and directed three short films, namely “War Game,” “America” (available to stream on Comcast’s Streampix), and “Copsi.” Her films have been screened at more than 50 film festivals and galleries in the US, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Croatia, Turkey, Iraq, India, and the United Kingdom. CFMDC--Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center--is the distribution company for her films.

She founded Philadelphia’s Utopia Film Club for cinephiles to watch and discuss avant-garde and alternative cinema. She has been nominated for the Princess Grace Award and PEW Fellowship. Her films are admired by people such as Boots Riley and Golshifteh Farahani.

Mehrnoosh’s primary research is on the history of Iranian documentary filmmaking. She is working on a feature documentary "Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel" about an influential pioneer in Iranian documentary who faced censorship before and after the Islamic Revolution for depicting poverty in Tehran.