Description: Ahmad Kiarostami - Official Website
Ahmad Kiarostami is the president of the Kiarostami Foundation, a non-profit based in San Francisco, CA. Before the Kiarostami Foundation, he co-founded Koantum , a platform to teach science to elementary school students in the United States, and founded Fotomoto (acquired in 2012) where he holds several patents on distributed e-commerce. Before moving to the United States in 2001, he founded three tech companies in Iran.
Ahmad makes music videos and has produced 24 FRAMES , Abbas Kiarostami’s final film, co-produced COUP 53 , a feature documentary on the story of the CIA/MI6’s coup in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh, and FEATHERS OF FIRE , a visually breathtaking cinematic shadow play by Hamid Rahmanian, inspired by the Persian epic Shahnameh (‘The Book of Kings’).
In 2014, Ahmad started Docunight , an initiative to show Iranian documentaries, with monthly screenings in 25 cities in North America, which is now a streaming service to make Iranian documentaries available everywhere in the world.