Amir is an Iranian-Canadian writer and actor based in Toronto. His first feature script, PORT OF CALL, was a finalist in the Canadian Film Festival Script Contest.

Amir was the recipient of the 2018 Daryl Duke Prize for excellence in a screenplay for an long-form dramatic film. He participated in the Whistler Film Festival Screenwriting Lab in 2018 and the script he came out of the lab with, went on to win the Writer's Guild of Canada Jim Burt Prize and was optioned by Vortex Productions.

His feature film, PLEASE, AFTER YOU was awarded Harold Greenberg Development funding, as well as Canada Media Fund production funding, had its world premiere at the Whistler Film Festival in 2024.

He is currently completing his MFA in Film at York University