Farhad Safinia (Persian: 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.
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.
[1] In the summer of 2007 he married actress Laura Regan in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Safinia met Gibson serving as his assistant during postproduction and promotion of The Passion of the Christ two years earlier.
[2] He was also the creator, writer and executive producer of the Starz TV series Boss.