I was born in Tehran in a family involved with Theatre and Music but was encouraged to follow science as my parents thought there will be no place for a woman in the field of Art in Iran. I loved to spend most of my time reading and listening to music to a point that seemed too much to others . I was dreaming to become a writer director and possibly even act when I grew up. But it was all in my head - all this were just out of hands and no relation to what I was surrounded by . Everything was shut down and many had left the country – other artists were just sitting at home. At this time I was going to learn music and was student of Mahmoud Tadjbakhsh one the masters of Se tar (Old Iranian string instrument). I didn’t like what was going on outside, I used to surround myself with books and music. Later and as a teenager I forced my parents to send me to study abroad, and so eventually I ended up in England.
In London at first I went to study Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, but soon I dropped these subjects and instead took Photography Design and also Classical Persian Literature at college “.
Torang Abedian has a BA (hons) in Contemporary Media Practice (film & video) from Westminster University. She has made few short films and has worked on many other projects in the field of film and music. She moved back to live in Tehran in 2003 when she began making Not an illusion. In 2006 she was selected as part of the mentoring program in the field of documentary films at The Hospital Club in London. Her mentor was Christopher Hird.
Some of her work include :
Assistant director and Photographer on Favorite and Point Taken“, Fiction, directed by John Mc Kay - NFTS projects. Camera person on Open city - documentary , directed by by Mitra Mansoori in Bam-Iran , and on A simple lawyer - documentary - about Shirin Ebadi -directed by Bani Khohnudi- Article Z France. She is the director of the audio book of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho in Farsi.