PRESS
Texas Highways — "The Big Texas Little Film Tour Is Coming Soon to a Town Near You" (Sept 2026)
Texas Standard / KUT 90.5 — "'The film would come to life so vividly': Iranian heritage inspires project of Austin filmmaker" (July 2025)
BBC World Service — OS — Live interview on the Iranian diaspora during the Israel–Iran war (June 2025)
CBS Austin — We Are Austin — "Inside the 18th Austin Asian American Film Festival" (June 2026)
FOX 7 Austin — "Front Festival: Independent artists & creatives" (Aug 2026)
KOOP 91.7 FM — Lights Camera Austin — Interview: Bita Ghassemi, writer/director, "Firewall" (June 2026)
Moment — "This Iranian-Texan Filmmaker's Story Is One You Should Know" (Sept 2025)
Adobe — "'The Making of The Making of': Spotlighting Austin talent with Meghan Ross and Bita Ghassemi" (May 2023)
The Austin Chronicle — "Watch This: Indoor Creature Follows Ben Franklin in 'American Dream'" (Apr 2022)
The Austin Chronicle — Austin Music Awards, Music Video of the Year nominee, "American Dream" (Feb 2023)
CultureMap Austin — "Front Festival shares lineup celebrating 10 years of indie art + film" (July 2026)
El Paso Matters — "Femme Frontera celebrates a decade of supporting emerging filmmakers" (June 2026)
The Rice Thresher — "Rice Cinema to screen 7th edition of Borders | No Borders" (Oct 2026)
New York International Children's Film Festival — 2026 shorts announcement, Firewall East Coast Premiere (Feb 2026)
Austin Film Society — 2023 AFS Grant recipients, MPS Camera and Lighting Austin Grant for Firewall (Jan 2024)
The Good Men Project / Omeleto — "My Friend Shokat" (2021)
UT Austin Radio-Television-Film — "Recent graduate awarded international fellowship" (2019)
UT Moody College of Communication — Alumni profile
Pavilion Grid — 35mm Analog Photography (July 2017)
Tribeza — Photography, Austin's New & Notable Restaurant Openings (2026)
TALKS & SCREENINGS
Harvard Law School — Firewall screening + Q&A, HLS Advocates for Human Rights (Jan 2026)
Yale University — Firewall screening + Q&A, MENACC & Council on Middle East Studies (Mar 2026)
Stanford University — Firewall screening + Q&A, Persian Student Association (May 2026)
Vox Populi, Philadelphia — Firewall screening + Q&A, The Hamdeli Project (Feb 2026)
The Front Festival, Austin — Moderator, "Made In Austin" community panel (Aug 2026)
The Contemporary Austin / 2024 Texas Biennial — Limbs of One Body, "Closed World" film series (Nov 2024)
TEXAS BITA
MySA — "Secretive 'Sabadeaux Queseaux' parade pops up in Austin once a year" (Feb 2025)
The Dodo — "What Would You Do If You Found The Cutest Litter Of Puppies?" (2025)
Cuteness / Yahoo Lifestyle — "Woman Finds Abandoned Puppies On The Road And Couldn't Help But Take Them Home" (Oct 2025)
Infobae — "El rescate que cambió la vida de cuatro cachorros abandonados en Texas" (Oct 2025)
Pupweekly — "Texas Woman On Country Drive Discovers Four Starving Puppies Begging For Help" (Oct 2025)
Pupvine — "Four Starving Puppies Raced Toward A Texas Woman Who Couldn't Keep Driving" (2026)