Mehran C. Torgoley is a Director & Writer, originally from Chicago, Il.
After over a decade working on AAA titles at Midway games, Shiny Entertainment and Double Helix. Mehran transitioned to directing. His work includes Feature Films, Music Videos and Commercial projects, including the award winning short, Committed.
He has contributed to projects for clients such as Justin Bieber, Fox Studios and Image8nineteen.
Mehran has been awarded for his many of his films and music videos with honors from film festivals including The Boston Film Festival, Los Angeles Movie Awards, The Hills Film Festival, Holly Shorts Film Festival, and Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood.
In 2019, he co-founded Cult Cinema, LLC. Curse of Aurore is Mehran’s feature film directorial debut, and is currently available on all major digital platforms in North America.
Spinners: Izzy Lyon - The Unspun Truth
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Film
by Cinema Relics (Comedy)
Co-Director / Co-Writer Twenty years after the disappearance of Izzy Lyon, the World's Greatest Sign Spinner, a group of devoted followers band together to restore his legacy.
Curse of Aurore
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Film
by Cult Cinema / Mehran C. Torgoley (Horror and Thriller)
Director / Co-Writer A thumb drive from the dark web reveals disturbing footage documenting three American filmmakers on a script writing trip to rural Quebec.
Non-Emergency
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Film
Cinematographer
Epic Home Break-Ins
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Film
by Marwan Abderazzaq (Thriller)
Editor
Fan-O-Rama
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Film
Visual effects
Committed
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Film (short)
by Mehran Torgoley (Drama, Mystery and Thriller)
Writer, Director, Visual effects, Editor, Producer A compassionate nurse in the women's ward of an overcrowded mental hospital in the early 1950's struggles to prove the sanity of a young paraplegic patient.
Run
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Film (short)
by Mehran Torgoley (Action and Sci-Fi)
Writer, Director, Visual effects, Editor, Producer, Actor, Cinematographer, Special effects, Camera and Electrical Department Paul desperately runs for safety from the Hunter, but things aren't quite what they seem.
Room Enough
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Film (short)
by Mehran Torgoley (Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer, Director, Visual effects, Editor, Producer, Actor Jon Etticks is a talented young writer who has lost his way to laziness and distraction. His life is humdrum and unchanging until a strangely familiar visitor arrives at his door, causing him to re-evaluate his very being.
Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
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Video Game
by Marc Ecko (Action, Adventure, Crime and Mystery)
Art department A graffiti artist (Trane) fights government corruption in the fictional city of New Radius.
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
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Video Game
by Martin Stoltz (Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Art department In the near future, an amnesiac U.N Anti Terror Core agent named Lieutenant Nick Scryer is sent to infiltrate the Movement, a psychic terrorist organization brandishing an army of brainwashed cyborg slaves and led by the former general in charge of the U.S government's psychic program, Project Mindgate. Aided by a double agent named Sara nick discovers that he is a Mindgate member. As Nick gets closer to the truth it is revealed that the Movement has set it's sights on ancient artifacts that have influenced wars and that in the wrong hands, could unleash a menace of God-like proportions upon the world. Written by redcommander27
MLB Slugfest 2004
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Video Game
by Mark Flitman (Family and Sport)
Art department
COMMITTED - Winner 'Best Short Film' - Los Angeles Movie Awards!
(2014)
COMMITTED - Winner 'Best Actress - Llana Barron' - Los Angeles Movie Awards!
(2014)
COMMITTED - Winner 'Best Performance in a Short Film - Llana Barron' - Boston Film Festival!
(2014)
COMMITTED - Winner 'Best Original Score' - Los Angeles Movie Awards!
(2014)
COMMITTED - Winner 'Audience Award' - Los Angeles Movie Awards!
(2014)
COMMITTED - Award of Merit - Best Shorts Competition
(2014)
DePaul University
(1992-1997)