Kourosh Ahari's guest appearances

Kourosh Ahari

The Nick Taylor Horror Show

The Jan Price Show 

In Creative Company

Mehmooni 

Adam Salky

Reed Birney

Melissa McCarthy

Jim Cummings

David Cade

Justin Chon

Keith Thomas

Nelson Lee

Todd Banhazl

David Guglielmo

Nick Chakwin

Adam Lipofsky

Rebecca Rittenhouse

Anastas Michos

Jon Abrahams

OwlTail

This week on Mehmooni I speak with director, write and producer Kourosh Ahari (@kouroshahari). Kourosh grew up in Iran until the age of 18 and then moved to the US to continue his studies. This has given him a unique perspective that he subtly brings into the world of his films. After moving to the US, he graduated at the top of his university class, receiving the Excellence in Film Directing Award. His fascination with the human condition/psychology and mining the universe beyond what is generally perceived can be felt at the core of his work. Films Kourosh has worked on have been screened at various prestigious festivals including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Fest, Napa Valley Film Festival, Edmonton Film Festival, Fajr Film Festival (Iran’s most prestigious film festival) and more. Most recently Kourosh directed, co-wrote and edited the critically-acclaimed Iranian horror film ‘The Night’ starring Shahab Hosseini. @TheNightMovie became the first US-produced film to receive a license to be released theatrically in Iran since the late 70s. I Kourosh has also directed the award-winning short ‘Generations’, backed by Tom Hanks and has directed films for immersive new technologies, like Barco Escape’s three-screen cinema technology. He has also produced several short films, including the Iranian short, ‘Numbness’, which has been selected at over 80 film festivals around the world and has won more than 9 awards. Find @TheNightMovie on the link below: www.thenight.movie/watch-at-home Tune in to ‘Mehmooni’ every Friday available to listen to on: @applepodcasts @spotifypodcasts  Google Podcast Raadio Public Pocket Casts Breaker  ________________________ Mehmooni is a podcast series where I speak with professional Iranians &amp; hyphenated-Iranians about their journeys. @MehmooniPodcast @Banni_Adam_ Host: @fvrro #podcasts #podcast #podcasting #podcastlife #mehmoonipodcast #podcaster #podcasters #podcastshow #spotify #applepodcasts #youtube #itunes #music #podcastinglife #podcastaddict #radio #newpodcast #podcastlove #applepodcast #spotifypodcast #podcastsofinstagram #podcastmovement #podcasthost #Mehmooni #podcastnetwork #KouroshAhari #Persian #Iranian #film #TheNight

This week on Mehmooni I speak with director, write and producer Kourosh Ahari (@kouroshahari). Kourosh grew up in Iran until the age of 18 and then moved to the US to continue his studies. This has given him a unique perspective that he subtly brings into the world of his films. After moving to the US, he graduated at the top of his university class, receiving the Excellence in Film Directing Award. His fascination with the human condition/psychology and mining the universe beyond what is generally perceived can be felt at the core of his work. Films Kourosh has worked on have been screened at various prestigious festivals including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Fest, Napa Valley Film Festival, Edmonton Film Festival, Fajr Film Festival (Iran’s most prestigious film festival) and more. Most recently Kourosh directed, co-wrote and edited the critically-acclaimed Iranian horror film ‘The Night’ starring Shahab Hosseini. @TheNightMovie became the first US-produced film to receive a license to be released theatrically in Iran since the late 70s. I Kourosh has also directed the award-winning short ‘Generations’, backed by Tom Hanks and has directed films for immersive new technologies, like Barco Escape’s three-screen cinema technology. He has also produced several short films, including the Iranian short, ‘Numbness’, which has been selected at over 80 film festivals around the world and has won more than 9 awards. Find @TheNightMovie on the link below: <a href="http://www.thenight.movie/watch-at-home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.thenight.movie/watch-at-home</a> Tune in to ‘Mehmooni’ every Friday available to listen to on: @applepodcasts @spotifypodcasts <ul> <li>Google Podcast</li> <li>Raadio Public</li> <li>Pocket Casts</li> <li>Breaker</li> </ul> ________________________ Mehmooni is a podcast series where I speak with professional Iranians &amp; hyphenated-Iranians about their journeys. @MehmooniPodcast @Banni_Adam_ Host: @fvrro #podcasts #podcast #podcasting #podcastlife #mehmoonipodcast #podcaster #podcasters #podcastshow #spotify #applepodcasts #youtube #itunes #music #podcastinglife #podcastaddict #radio #newpodcast #podcastlove #applepodcast #spotifypodcast #podcastsofinstagram #podcastmovement #podcasthost #Mehmooni #podcastnetwork #KouroshAhari #Persian #Iranian #film #TheNight

Mehmooni: Kourosh Ahari on "The Night" 

Q&amp;A with writer/director Kourosh Ahari on his  IFC film The Night. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. This Q&amp;A was filmed live in front of a virtual audience.A couple become trapped inside a hotel with their demons -- real and imagined -- until they can confront the secrets of their marriage.

Q&amp;A with writer/director Kourosh Ahari on his IFC film The Night. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. This Q&amp;A was filmed live in front of a virtual audience. A couple become trapped inside a hotel with their demons -- real and imagined -- until they can confront the secrets of their marriage.

Episode 166: Kourosh Ahari, The Night

Kourosh Ahari is an Iranian American director who just made his directorial debut with the horror-thriller, The Night, from IFC Midnight. The Night focuses on a young couple and their baby girl as they check into a hotel room that they suddenly cannot leave until they work out their own inner demons. The Night is currently available on demand. I bought up with Kourosh to talk about his career, lessons learned from his first feature, and how he paid the bills as a filmmaker for years by starting his own production company. Here are some key takeaways from this conversation with Kourosh Ahari.  Turn to your production crew to deepen your story. As a director, there are only so many things you can give your focus to on a daily basis on set, so you need to have a crew you can rely on. Not only rely on for technical elements, but for creative decisions as well, who can take your vision to an entirely new level by adding depth to what you created. In the case of The Night, there are a lot of small details throughout the film that deepen the movie's mythology and overall world-building strength. These details primarily came from Kourosh's set design and production design crew, who integrated details from his story into their work, which deepened the movie substantially and by making its mythos more effective. This is exactly what you want as a director and another reason why directors should always be open to deep collaborations as opposed to fundamentalist auteurism.  Proceed through entrepreneurship. As we all know, becoming a director can be a difficult road, but to increase your chances, consider starting a production company that makes commercial projects. These not only pay the bills really well, but they provide critical production experience on low-pressure sets that can help you hone your directorial ability. If you can't start a company like this one, then consider joining one. David Fincher, Michael Cimino, Ridley Scott, and Tony Scott all got their start with commercials. You can too. It’s a day job that pays the wages and gives you skills that will help you as a director.  Rehearse backstory. Rehearsal is critically important for getting the scenes right, but what not a lot of directors don’t discuss is exercises for establishing camaraderie &amp; chemistry between characters. To get his primary actors to be believable on camera as a couple who had a tumultuous past, Kourosh had the actors rehearse their character's backstory by acting out memories, dinners, arguments, and other memories that never were in the script. This is a brilliant rehearsal technique because it not only establishes chemistry and believability between characters, it establishes history. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe today and tell all of your horror filmmaker friends as well! ----- Produced by Simpler Media

Kourosh Ahari is an Iranian American director who just made his directorial debut with the horror-thriller, The Night, from IFC Midnight. The Night focuses on a young couple and their baby girl as they check into a hotel room that they suddenly cannot leave until they work out their own inner demons. The Night is currently available on demand. I bought up with Kourosh to talk about his career, lessons learned from his first feature, and how he paid the bills as a filmmaker for years by starting his own production company. Here are some key takeaways from this conversation with Kourosh Ahari.  Turn to your production crew to deepen your story. As a director, there are only so many things you can give your focus to on a daily basis on set, so you need to have a crew you can rely on. Not only rely on for technical elements, but for creative decisions as well, who can take your vision to an entirely new level by adding depth to what you created. In the case of The Night, there are a lot of small details throughout the film that deepen the movie's mythology and overall world-building strength. These details primarily came from Kourosh's set design and production design crew, who integrated details from his story into their work, which deepened the movie substantially and by making its mythos more effective. This is exactly what you want as a director and another reason why directors should always be open to deep collaborations as opposed to fundamentalist auteurism.  Proceed through entrepreneurship. As we all know, becoming a director can be a difficult road, but to increase your chances, consider starting a production company that makes commercial projects. These not only pay the bills really well, but they provide critical production experience on low-pressure sets that can help you hone your directorial ability. If you can't start a company like this one, then consider joining one. David Fincher, Michael Cimino, Ridley Scott, and Tony Scott all got their start with commercials. You can too. It’s a day job that pays the wages and gives you skills that will help you as a director.  Rehearse backstory. Rehearsal is critically important for getting the scenes right, but what not a lot of directors don’t discuss is exercises for establishing camaraderie &amp; chemistry between characters. To get his primary actors to be believable on camera as a couple who had a tumultuous past, Kourosh had the actors rehearse their character's backstory by acting out memories, dinners, arguments, and other memories that never were in the script. This is a brilliant rehearsal technique because it not only establishes chemistry and believability between characters, it establishes history. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe today and tell all of your horror filmmaker friends as well! ----- Produced by <a href="https://podcastlaunch.pro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Simpler Media</a>

THE NIGHT Director, Kourosh Ahari (Episode 71)

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