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Iranian-American director and screenwriter, internationally acclaimed for his first two features, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop and Guggenheim Fellow.
Writer/Director Ramin Bahrani's films have premiered and screened at such festivals as Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto. He has won numerous awards such as the FIPRESCI prize for best film (Man Push Cart, London; Goodbye Solo, Venice), the "Someone to Watch" Independent Spirit Award (Chop Shop), and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2010 Legendary American film critic Roger Ebert proclaimed Bahrani as "the director of the decade."
Founder of Lord-Warner Pictures, Inc. famous for the 1964 movie "Pitch A Boogie Woogie"
John Warner was a self-taught filmmaker whose first film experience was freelancing for newsreel companies. He founded Lord-Warner Pictures in Greenville, NC and produced his one theatrical release, Pitch a Boogie Woogie, in 1947. Warner had entertained local blacks at his Greenville theater with his own versions of “movies of local people” as early as the mid-1930s, He had dreamed of opening a Hollywood-style studio in Greenville, but it never came to be. The film was discovered in 1975 by a musician in the abandoned Roxy Theater.
One of the few African American film producers of his time, he was famous for the 1923 movie "The Devil's Match."
The first in-state studio run by a North Carolinian was probably North State Films, founded by W. S. Scales in Winston-Salem in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scales, an important and barely documented filmmaker, was one of the few African American film producers of his time. He had been a successful theater owner in Winston-Salem, booking acts from the black vaudeville circuit as well as movies, and the black film industry was still in its infancy when he produced His Great Chance and The Devil's Match in 1923. At least two other black-owned production companies were formed in North Carolina in the 1920s, but whether they produced any films is not known.
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