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Ramin Bahrani was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1975. His films, which he writes or co-writes, directs, produces and sometimes edits himself, have screened at the Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals, among others. Bahrani has won numerous awards including the FIPRESCI critics’ prize for best film in Venice (Goodbye Solo, 2009) and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been the subject of retrospectives in venues such as the MoMA in NYC. His latest film, 99 Homes, screened in 2014 to rave reviews at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2010, legendary film critic Roger Ebert proclaimed Bahrani as “the director of the decade.”