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Kamshad Kooshan (Persian: كامشاد كوشان; born December 19, 1962) is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director. (كامشاد كوشان ) Iranian-born & 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, Kamshad Kooshan has written and directed three short films, with the last one, 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. With hard work by Kooshan, in 1998 the screenplay for Surviving Paradise attracted producers & investors and with more than 50 actors went into production in Los Angeles. Upon its completion, after being invited to various international film festivals as an American film, and garnering attention from critiques and the media, it went on a 3 months theatrical run at major American movie theaters, introducing Shohreh Aghdashloo to Hollywood and becoming the first English Language Iranian feature film by an Iranian-American filmmaker to be distributed in movie theaters in North America. ==Early life== Kooshan was born in Tehran, to a middle-class family. His father Abbas Kooshan, was deputy to the former Prime Minister, Mr.Ali Amini, while he was at the Ministry of Treasury. His Uncle, Dr. Esmail Kooshan, a Berlin educated film lover with a PHd, who brought professional filmmaking into Iran and established Mitra Film and later on Pars Film, the only movie studio with a back lot in Iran for years. As a director & producer, he was the major force in shaping the mass view of films in Iran. Kamshad Kooshan visited Pars Film Studios and attributes part of his love of films to those adventures at Pars Film Studios. While he was around 2 years old, however his father died and his mother “Noori Khanoom”, Aka "Soghra Noorol Sadat- Sadate Larijani, despite all obstacles decided to raise her 5 children, namely the 5 boys she had, by herself. Noori Khanoom was from a wealthy family and because her clerical father was one of the Military Judges, she was not used to doing work and had always been surrounded by domestic help and chauffeurs, but soon she learned to rely on herself in order to raise her family. In the early 1960s traditional Iran was not an easy place in dealing with single mothers, but Noori Khanoom persevered and made sure that the boys all received a decent education. Kooshan spent his childhood going through austere environment where money was short and parental supervision was minimal and that is where he was able to receive most of his education, namely from the street and friends. One of his main loves was Music. Even though he was completely immersed in memorizing all the songs he could hear and learned to play music by ear from early on, his mother’s adamant rejection of Music studies or any presence of instruments in the house, led him to abandon his passion for something less threatening to his studies at school. He picked up Photography while he was around 12 years old and continued on. As a 16-year-old, he became heavily involved in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, but his mother forcefully decided to cut his presence in Iran short and send him abroad to United States, where he traveled alone to go to High School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kamshad Kooshan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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