Amirali A’laaii, Majid Barzegar, Masoud Amini Tirani, Nima Abbaspour, Amir Touderoosta, Peyman Nahanghodrati and Armin Isarian have been the awards directors as of 2020.
ISFA Academy was founded in 2009, but since due to the Iranian election events all House of Cinema Celebrations were cancelled, it was debuted at the 3rd Independent Short Film Ceremony in 2010.
Naghi Nemati, Bijan Mirbagheri, Saeed Pouresmaili, Shahram Mokri, Amirali A’laaii, Nima Abbaspour, Arash Rasafi and Majid Barzegar are the members of the board of founders of this academy.
[6] The ISFA emblem award granted every year to one of the significant figures of Iranian cinema comprises two bronze plaques inscribed with old Persian cuneiform and a Persian-mythology-inspired orb said to display the universe (Jam-e Jahan Nama).
The emblem was given to Abbas Kiarostami[7] in the 2nd term and followingly to Naser Taghvaei (2010), Rakhshan Banietemad (2011), Kianoosh Ayari (2014), Bahram Beyzaei (2015), Khosrow Sinai[8] (2016), Amir Naderi[9] (2017) Sohrab Shahid Saless[10] (2018) and Parviz Kimiavi[11] (2019).