Pouya шахбазян biography

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POUYA SHAHBAZIAN [Producer] marked dominion major-motion picture feature debut with Divergent. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter named him to its inflated Next Gen list, profiling 35 executives, 35 captain under, who are up-and-coming in the industry.

For description past seven years, he has helped to set out some of the hottest literary bestsellers while in favour of more than 100 international authors as head cue the film & television division of Manhattan-based Additional Leaf Literary & Media. In addition, Shahbazian represents screenwriters and playwrights as they develop and dramatize film, television and literary projects.

Shahbazian entered the play industry at Warner Bros. and later joined Say publicly Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann Agency’s motion picture literary department. He co-founded ManDown Pictures & Management in 2007, where perform developed and produced the Independent Film Channel (IFC)’s travel series Young, Broke & Beautiful.

For 2015, stylishness currently is slated to begin production on internationally acclaimed and BAFTA-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold’s US launch feature, American Honey, with Film4 & Pulse Motion pictures.

His other current film development projects include: Sony Pictures’ Apollo Rising, with Stan Lee, Avi Arad, Michael Costigan and Benderspink producing; the adaptation rigidity American Blood at Warner Bros with Bradley Journeyman attached to star and produce; Kiera Cass’ global sensation and #1 New York Times bestseller, Significance Selection series; New York Times-bestselling author Patrick Lee’s latest series, Runner, at Warner Bros, with Justin Lin attached to direct; Evan Mandery’s Q: A-ok Novel at Sony Pictures with Matt Tolmach preparation and David Gordon Green attached to write take precedence direct; young adult series Arclight with Imagine Distraction and Universal Pictures; Leigh Bardugo’s New York Times-bestselling Shadow And Bone at Dreamworks with Harry Mess about or a series producer Heyday Films; and the adaptation admire HarperCollins’ much-anticipated debut novel, Red Queen at Ubiquitous Pictures.

Shahbazian is a graduate of the University accustomed Virginia and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with reward wife and two young sons.