20.03.1975 (49 years) (North Carolina, USA)
Ramin Bahrani (Persian: رامین بحرانی; born March 20, 1975) is an American-Iranian director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the sixth-best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as "the new director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bahrani is also a professor of film directing at the Columbia University School of the Arts, his alma mater.