Navid Khonsari (Persian: نوید خونساری) (born 1970) is an Iranian-Canadian video game, virtual/mixed reality, film and graphic novel creator, writer, director and producer.

Khonsari created the 1979 Revolution: Black Friday,[4] which received the industry’s top honors: a BAFTA, Facebook Game of the Year, Tribeca FF Storyscape, among others, being also recognized by UNESCO as digital work displaying peaceful conflict resolution.

Khonsari is credited with having ushered in the current wave of contemporary AAA video games, such as Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Red Dead Revolver, and The Warriors, up to the recent Resident Evil: Biohazard.

He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins,[5] and guest lectures at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Northwestern in Qatar, the White House, UN, Sundance [6] and more.

Khonsari's subsequent titles, also lauded as innovative breakthroughs that reframe the human experience, including HERO (site-specific multi-sensory VR experience of civilian warfare in Syria) premiered at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival winning the Storyscape Award for Best Immersive, Blindfold premiering at Sheffield, Fire Escape Tribeca Film Festival––and currently Who is Michael Sterling?