Olds also created the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, which depicts the working relationship between American journalist Christian Parenti and his Afghan colleague Ajmal Naqshbandi during the War in Afghanistan.
[4] In 2012 Olds and actor James Franco co-directed the film Francophrenia: (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), which repurposes footage taken of Franco on the set of the American soap opera General Hospital.
Olds edited Franco’s split-screen feature adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
[9] Olds received his MFA from Columbia University’s Film Division in 2006.
He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2009[10] and was a 2011 Fellow at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab.