Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani Persian born March 20, 1975 is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahranis film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as the director of the decade. Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at Columbia Universitys Graduate Film Program in New York City

Bahranis second film Chop Shop 2007 premiered at the 2007 Directors Fortnight of the Cannes International Film Festival, and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 and the Berlin International Film Festival 2008 before being released theatrically to wide and universal critical acclaim. Bahrani was awarded the prestigious 2007 Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award. In 2008, he was nominated for Best Director Independent Spirit Award.Goodbye Solo, Bahranis third feature film, premiered as an official selection of the Venice Film Festival 2008 where it won the international film critics FIPRESCI award for best film, and later had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2008. The film was called a masterpiece by numerous critics including Roger Ebert and A.O. Scott of The New York Times. ........

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