an award-winning British-Iranian filmmaker and journalist, has achieved a lot at 27! Hailing from Liverpool, Zand started his career at university, making current affairs and travel video content for his website, Informed Explorer.

Since then he's gone on to create documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC, work for Panorama as its youngest ever reporter, and is now head of the BBC's first mobile documentary bureau, BBC Pop Up. Most recently, Zand captured the attention of music-lovers, the media, and young people around the world with his provocative BBC Three documentary, R Kelly: Sex, Girls, and Videotapes. The hour long film caused the controversial singer's name to trend on Twitter, prompting news outlets around the world to revisit questions about allegations surrounding the R&B star.