Mohammed Mark Amin (Persian: محمد مارک امین) is an Iranian American motion picture producer, writer, director, and distributor who has been working in independent and mainstream cinema for more than two decades.
Raised in a family that was in the pistachio trading business,[5] Amin immigrated to the United States in 1967, finishing out his last year of high school in Colorado.
However, New York City proved too overwhelming and Amin transferred to the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[8] After graduating from management school, Amin worked for Western Gear, a construction machinery firm, and returned to Iran as the company's representative.
[10] Trimark Pictures went on to release such titles as Warlock (1989), The Dentist (1996) and the Leprechaun franchise (the first of which starred a young Jennifer Aniston).
In 2000, Trimark merged with Lions Gate Entertainment in a move that made Amin Lionsgate's single largest shareholder, as well as its vice chairman.
Sobini assisted in the production of Miles Ahead, starring Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor, and also served as a producer for Good Kill (2015) with Ethan Hawke.
[14] In 2011, Amin produced a documentary entitled "Jujitsu-ing Reality" on Scott Lew, a screenwriter with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
[15] Amin is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Farhang Foundation, an organization that promotes the study and research of Iranian art and culture.