An educator and novelist, my roots are from Iran where I was born, raised and educated. After moving to the US to pursuit higher education, I fell in love with America as a nation and called the US home.
Price of Oil Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Action A British nurse risks her life to rescue a Persian teen from a death sentence, only to uncover a deadly web of espionage and betrayal involving British, Russian and American spies in 1920s Tehran.
Exodus 2057 Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Action Pilot logline: As the last survivors from a dying Earth travel across the galaxy to a new home planet, Captain Damon Blake is surprised to find his ex-wife and girlfriend among the ship’s passengers.
MAN OUT OF COUNTRY Comedy An Iranian music teacher, his American wife and their free-thinking teenage sons try to find common ground in a small town in California amid clashing cultures and in-laws.
In the Shadow of the Kingmakers Historical ⋄ Drama In 1924, a young English nurse working at the British embassy in Tehran, must steer way from danger her young friend, a teenage Persian gardener, who unwittingly had heard a conversation between a British spy and his cohorts about his plot against an American diplomat.
London Film & TV Festival, Finalist
(2022)
Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award, Semi-finalist
(2022)
Gonzaga University
(1979-1981)