Pakravan went to the United States to continue with her education, where she majored in cinema at UCLA. There she made two short movies: Ro’yā (Dream), starring Behzad Farahani and Mozhgan Rabbani, and Actor Actor . She also made the documentary Hamrāh bā persiān (Accompanied by Iranians) for Jām-e Jam TV, which deals with the lives of Iranians in Los Angeles and San Francisco.