Arash T. Riahi

Arash T. Riahi is a director, producer, script-writer and dramatic consultant born in 1972. He moved to Austria in 1982. After studying film and the arts at the University of Vienna, he worked several years as a freelancer in the youth and art department of the ORF/Austrian Broadcasting Network. In 1997, he co-founded the film and media production company Golden Girls Filmproduktion (www.goldengirls.at). His body of work as a director & producer, which has won more than 100 international awards, comprises various short and experimental films ('Mississippi; 'That Has Been Bothering Me The Whole Time'), commercials, music videos and documentaries, including 'The Souvenirs of Mr. X', 'Exile Family Movie' or the cross-media project 'Everyday Rebellion' that he made with his brother Arman T. Riahi. His first fiction film 'For a Moment Freedom' was Austria's candidate for the Academy Awards in 2010. Since 2010, he is also working as a dramatic advisor for the Creative Europe script-development programs Sources 2, Nipkow, Berlinale Talents or Doc-Incubator. He teaches at the Vienna film-academy and the Vienna Film School and has held lectures at the Scottish Documentary Institute, Goethe Institute Dublin, Zkm Karlsruhe, etc. He is a member of the European Filmacademie, the Austrian Directors & Producers Guild and part of the ACE-Producers Network. Recent works include the documentary "Born in Evin" by Maryam Zaree, which he co-produced with Tondowski Film and which was awarded the Compass Perspektive award at the Berlinale 2019 as well as "Solo" by Artemio Benki, a co-production with Artcam & Petit a Petit which premiered at the Cannes Filmfestival 2019. His new fiction film "Where no one knows us" is in post-production and will be released end of 2019.