Born and raised in North Carolina, writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s films, Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), Goodbye Solo (2008) and Plastic Bag (2009) have premiered and screened at Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals. He has won numerous prizes including the “Someone to Watch” Independent Spirit Award, the FIPRESCI international critics prize for Best Film (Goodbye Solo, Venice), and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bahrani is a directing faculty at Columbia University’s graduate film program and has had retrospectives in numerous venues including the MoMA in NYC, Harvard University, and La Rochelle in France. In 2010 leading American film critic Roger Ebert proclaimed Bahrani as “the director of the decade.”

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