Zal Batmanglij

About Zal Batmanglij

Who is it?: Writer, Director, Producer
Birth Year: 1980
Education: AFI Conservatory
Occupation: Film director, screenwriter
Years active: 2011–present
Known for: Sound of My Voice (2011) The East (2013) The OA (2016-)

Zal Batmanglij

Zal Batmanglij was born on 1980, is Writer, Director, Producer. Zal Batmanglij is a writer and director, known for The OA (2016), The East (2013) and Sound of My Voice (2011).
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Biography/Timeline

1981

Batmanglij was born in 1981 in France to Iranian parents and grew up in Washington, D.C.. His mother, Najmieh Batmanglij, is a cookbook author; his father is a book publisher. His younger brother Rostam was a founding member of the band Vampire Weekend. Both brothers are gay.

2002

Batmanglij studied anthropology and English at Georgetown University, graduating in 2002. At Georgetown he met Mike Cahill in a philosophy class. They took a screenwriting course together and co-directed a short film that won the Georgetown Film Festival. Brit Marling saw the film and asked if she could work with them. Several years later, following Marling's graduation, the three friends moved to Los Angeles, California, where Batmanglij attended the AFI Conservatory. For his thesis film, he made a 35mm short called The Recordist (2007), which starred Marling.

2011

In 2011, Batmanglij's debut feature, Sound of My Voice, co-written with Marling, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Shortly thereafter, Fox Searchlight Pictures purchased Sound of My Voice, as well as Batmanglij and Marling's next feature script, The East. Batmanglij also directed The East, starring Marling, Ellen Page, and Alexander Skarsgård. The film premiered at Sundance in 2013.

2016

Batmanglij and Marling collaborated to create drama series The OA, which debuted in 2016 on Netflix. It was written by Marling and Batmanglij, who produced the series along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B, and Michael Sugar of Anonymous Content.

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