Kamshad Kooshan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kamshad Kooshan

Movie writer/ director

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1962

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: film director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Kamshad Kooshan

  • Kamshad Kooshan (Persian: ?????? ?????; born December 19, 1962) is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director.
  • ?????? ????? Iranian-born and Bay Area film director, screenwriter and film producer, Kamshad Kooshan, immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen.
  • He has been involved with photography since the age of 12 and has had many exhibitions.
  • Additionally he has directed full length plays in various San Francisco venues and has written and published many short stories, among them, Moonlit Garden, a collection of short stories published by Raha Press. Since graduating from San Francisco State University and studying at American Conservatory of Theater, Kooshan wrote and directed three short films, with the last, The Last Illusion, touring such venues as American Film Institute and UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  • He has taught at the Graduate Motion Picture & Video department of Academy of Art University in San Francisco for four years. In 1998, his screenplay, Surviving Paradise, attracted producers and investors and with more than 50 actors went into production in Los Angeles.
  • Upon completion, after being invited to various international film festivals as an American film, garnering attention from critics and the media.
  • The film went on a three-month theatrical run at major American theater chains, introducing Shohreh Aghdashloo to Hollywood and becoming the first English-language Iranian feature film by an Iranian-American filmmaker to be distributed theatrically in North America.

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