Director

Omid Iranikhah

Directing

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 2502714

Known for: Directing

Born: March 9, 1998

Age: 27

Gender: Male

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Career span: 2018 - 2025

Years active: 8

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Biography

Iranian-American writer/director and actor Omid Iranikhah focuses on stories dealing with the Iranian and Iranian Diaspora experience. His 2021 narrative short film "Don't Be a Stranger," a meditative drama about an Iranian couple's struggle to accept their drug addict son back into their life, played at a number of film festivals and won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Accord CineFest. His accolades also include winning the Michael Collyer Fellowship in Screenwriting and placing as a semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships for his Iran-set folk horror screenplay.

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