Farhad Safinia
{{short description|American film producer}}
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Farhad Safinia ({{langx|fa| فرهاد صفینیا}} Farhād Safīnīyā; born 1975) is an Iranian-American screenwriter, film/TV producer and director, best known for Apocalypto, Boss, and The Professor and the Madman. He was credited under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the latter.
Personal life
Farhad Safinia was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1975. He left Iran with his family at the age of four to live in Paris, then London. He studied at Charterhouse and then at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics. While at King's he directed and acted in a number of stage productions for the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club and other theatre companies.
After graduating, he moved to New York City, where he studied film at the New School University and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.{{cite news |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/12/17/entertainment/with-help-from-a-friend-mel-cut-to-the-chase.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html |title=With help from a friend, Mel cut to the chase |author=Nicole Sperling |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=December 17, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622194319/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/12/17/entertainment/with-help-from-a-friend-mel-cut-to-the-chase.html%26template%3D/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html |archive-date=June 22, 2008 |df=mdy }} In the summer of 2007 he married actress Laura Regan in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Hollywood
Apocalypto (2006), which he co-wrote with director/producer Mel Gibson, is his first feature-length screenplay. Safinia met Gibson serving as his assistant during postproduction and promotion of The Passion of the Christ two years earlier.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121500342.html|author=Nicole Sperling|title=With help from a friend, Mel cut to the chase |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 15, 2006}} He was also the creator, writer and executive producer of the Starz TV series Boss. He went on to direct the 2019 film, The Professor and the Madman starring Mel Gibson. He currently lives in Los Angeles.{{cite news | date = January 10, 2007 | title = APOCALYPTO – The Official Movie Website | url = http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ | publisher = movies.go.com | access-date = January 10, 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070111044728/http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ | archive-date = January 11, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1731154}}
- [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=479977 Farhad Safinia filmography at NY Times]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070111044728/http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ Apocalypto official movie page] – Includes brief bio on Safinia
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Category:People educated at Charterhouse School
Category:Film people from Tehran
Category:Iranian screenwriters
Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American film producers
Category:Writers from Los Angeles
Category:The New School alumni
Category:Iranian film producers
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Category:Iranian diaspora film people
Category:Screenwriters from California
Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)
Category:Iranian emigrants to the United States
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