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Arman T. Riahi: Biography

Writer/Director

Project Title: D'EHRE

Arman was born in Iran and grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he did his first short films as a teenager. He studied media technologies and worked as a screen- and graphic designer in London (Less Rain Ltd.) & Vienna (Golden Girls Filmproduktion).

In 2005, he started his TV-career as a director of 25min-TV-shows, f.e. �Sendung ohne Namen� (youth programme) or �Sunshine Airlines� (culture programme), for the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation).

His short film �Elektronikschrott� (�Elektrotrash�, 11min.) won the nation wide short film award �Shorts On Screen 2005�. In 2006, Arman took part at the Berlinale Talent Campus as director/screenwriter. 2008 Arman co-wrote & directed the TV-documentary series �Momentum � What drives you� (Red Bull Media House).

Currently, he is finishing his first cinema documentary �Schwarzkopf� (�Dark Head�, Golden Girls Filmproduktion, 2010) & working on a new TV-show called �Neue Wiener� about the young immigrants in Vienna, for nation wide private TV Puls4.

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