Sohrab Mirmont

Award-winning film director, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor and actor Sohrab Mirmont won the 2005 New York International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award and was named Filmmaker to Watch by Digital Filmmaker Magazine UK for his first film, "The Beautiful Wind". His second feature film, "The Freemason", starring Sean Astin, was screened internationally and won multiple-awards including Comic Con Film Festival's Best Director and Best Editor awards. Its success garnered the film a sequel; "The Freemason 2: Retaliation". Mirmont also won the Utah Film Critic Choice Award, a Silver Telly award, and was named "Up and Coming Filmmaker" by respected industry magazine P3 Update in its Fall 2013 issue. He is the nephew of internationally acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami, and has been heralded to show talent representative of his great directorial lineage. Mirmont serves as President of Lurkin(TM), a Venture Studio that creates companies, including Mirmont's own film production company, Mirmont Pictures.