During this time he took every opportunity to get close to film production, gatecrashing the sets of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

In the late 1990s, Nooshin travelled to New York and spent much of his time at famed method acting institute The Actor’s Studio, watching others including Arthur Penn take drama classes.

Soon after, Nooshin began writing feature scripts and signed with talent agency CAA.

In 2008 Nooshin's script for Last Passenger was voted onto the Brit List[clarification needed] of favourite unproduced British screenplays.

In a 2013 interview for his former college Nooshin expressed his view that "The film industry is built on a cultural fault line where the tectonic plates of art and commerce meet.