Hassan Ali was born in 1968 in Erbil, Iraq, he is a writer, director, producer, and employee of the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in the cinema department. He first entered the arts as a painter and then, in 1991, continued his career as a theater artist. In 1998, he made his first short film, and in 2008, he became president of the Kurdistan Filmmakers Association. He has screened several commercial films in cinemas and has won several international awards in cinema. He is the owner of the TVC Cinema production company.