Mohammad T.Zarindast

Producer-Director Tony Zarindast was educated in California, attending high school in Sacramento.

Upon graduation with high honors, from Cerritos College in Norwalk, where he majored in drama and theatre arts. Mr.Zarindast was admitted in to the UCLA motion picture department. he studied Editing, Direction and Film Making under the supervision of John Young, Edgar Brokaw, Stanley Kramer and Martin Scorcese.

For his masters thesis, he produced, directed, and starred in full length motion picture, " Kill Alex Kill", now being released World-Wide by Orion Pictures, now MGM Studios.

After graduation, with a masters degree in Cinema, Tony worked in Hollywood for several years as an editor, eventually, he organized his own production company, based at MGM Studios. His first production, which Tony also directed, was entitled "Cat IN The Cage", a contemporary mystery. It received top honors at the 1979 Cairo Film Festival, and is now being released by First Look Media World-Wide. and a Film Called A HOLLYWOOD STORY which won Diploma of HONOR from 1991 Moscow int. Film Festival.

That was followed by a major epic entitled the "The Guns and The Fury". that Tony produced and directed from his own screenplay, filmed in Egypt, Tunisia and Rome, Staring Peter Graves, Cameron Mitchell Ansara and Albert Salmi.

By the year 2005, Tony had produced and directed more than 14 features, which have been released world-wide by independent distributors, including MGM Studios.

Tony has just completed his latest film in title "VERTIGO". titled "VERTIGO", which deals with a 55yr old man with split personality. He is an Iranian-American, who returns home after 35 years.

Tony has started pre-production on his newest film titled Dead Lanterns a forbidden love story which takes place during Taliban regime in Afghanistan.