Ramin Niami (Persian: رامین نیامی) is an Iranian film director, producer, actor and writer.
[1] He was born in Tehran, Iran, educated at film school in London and worked as a director and producer on over twenty television documentaries, many of them broadcast by the UK’s BBC and Channel 4, as well as major American networks.
[1] After relocating to Los Angeles, he directed and produced his second feature film Paris which premiered in main competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, starring Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo and Karen Black.
[1] Babe’s & Rickey’s Inn was the winner of the Pan African Film Festival Programmer’s Award 2013 and premiered theatrically at Laemmle Monica 4 Plex in LA.
Shirin in Love set in Los Angeles and Northern California, which stars Nazanin Boniadi (How I Met your Mother, Homeland), Riley Smith (Radio, Freaks and Geeks), Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams, Gone Baby Gone), Maz Jobrani (The Interpreter, founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour), George Wallace (Funny People, headliner at The Flamingo, Las Vegas), Anahita Khalatbari and Marshall Manesh (Will & Grace, Entourage) was theatrically released in March 2014 as a co-release with AMC Independent in at least 15 major cities in the US.