Saeed Mayahi is an Iranian film director born in 1991 in Bushehr. He graduated from Bushehr Film School in 2013 and immediately began working on an animation called 'Swan Lake' as a director. Over the years, he has produced five documentaries and one animation, earning numerous international awards, including the Audience Award at the Academy Award-qualifying festival, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Common for Saeed Mayahi’s films is that he uses the film media in all of them to explore and depict the hidden as well as visible boundaries found in society. The paradoxical distinctions that emerge between life in private and public spheres, and the inevitable entanglement of individual identity between those contradicting forces.
Saeed Mayahi entered the documentary field by initiating the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" project, which centers on an erotic illustrator in Iran who gains fame through his erotic art. He followed his subject for almost ten years and is currently wrapping up the final shooting session. Subsequently, he embarked on the short documentary "Finish Line," which depicts an Iranian female athlete who refuses to compete with a hijab in international competitions.

In 2019, Saeed immigrated to Turkey and restarted his career there, producing two featured documentaries: "Game Over" and "Transformation." These documentaries shed light on the stories of illegal Afghan refugees in Istanbul following the Taliban's rise to power in August 2021. Both films received numerous awards worldwide, with "Game Over" earning the distinction of being the best national Turkish documentary of 2023.