Ali Zamani
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Ali Zamani is a film, commercial and music video director. He spent his formative years in Sweden working at his father's video store where his interest for cinema and visual story telling quickly grew into a passion. By the age of fourteen, Ali would cast his friends to star in his short movies and would get his mother to be the cinematographer. He pursued his love for the art-form at Bournemouth University where he attained his Higher National Diploma in Video Production followed by a
Bachelors of Arts degree in Film, Video, Media and Society from Northbrook College, UK. During his time at Northbrook Institute, Ali directed several short films, one of which was chosen to be screened at the Duke of York's Cinema in Brighton.
Following this success, he became even more dedicated to furthering his studies, ultimately receiving his Masters in Mass Communication at California State
University Northridge.
Since graduating, Ali has directed more than 300 music video's, dozens of commercials and 4 award winning feature films internationally over the last 15 years. In 2012 his Commercial for Luxor "The Comeback Kid", and music video "Love Like Magic", were awarded two silver Davey Awards in the Film/Video/TV, and Music Video categories.
His previous music video clients include; Snoop Dogg, Enrique Iglesias, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, French Montana, P-Diddy and Drake, just to name a few. Commercial clients include Luxor Casino Hotel, LG, Black Mask Rum, H2 Rose, and more.
Ali has until now directed eight feature films that have been distributed worldwide by major studios such as Lionsgate. His motion picture 'Opus of an Angel'; a passion project which he spent 3 years developing and writing is an uplifting drama with a spiritual undertone starring William McNamara and introduces the born-blind actress, Kaylynn Kubeldis. Opus Of An Angel received critical acclaim and was nominated and won numerous awards at various festivals around the world. Ali's fourth movie Angels Fallen, an action adventure movie shot in Macedonia and starring Michael Madsen and Nicholas Turturro was a commercial success as it was released both in the US and internationally in early 2020. Following the success of Angels Fallen, Ali is currently in production stages of the sequel, titled Angels Fallen 2 : Warriors of peace which stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Denise Richards and Randy Couture.
Since graduating, Ali has directed more than 300 music video's, dozens of commercials and 4 award winning feature films internationally over the last 15 years. In 2012 his Commercial for Luxor "The Comeback Kid", and music video "Love Like Magic", were awarded two silver Davey Awards in the Film/Video/TV, and Music Video categories.
His previous music video clients include; Snoop Dogg, Enrique Iglesias, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, French Montana, P-Diddy and Drake, just to name a few. Commercial clients include Luxor Casino Hotel, LG, Black Mask Rum, H2 Rose, and more.
Ali has until now directed eight feature films that have been distributed worldwide by major studios such as Lionsgate. His motion picture 'Opus of an Angel'; a passion project which he spent 3 years developing and writing is an uplifting drama with a spiritual undertone starring William McNamara and introduces the born-blind actress, Kaylynn Kubeldis. Opus Of An Angel received critical acclaim and was nominated and won numerous awards at various festivals around the world. Ali's fourth movie Angels Fallen, an action adventure movie shot in Macedonia and starring Michael Madsen and Nicholas Turturro was a commercial success as it was released both in the US and internationally in early 2020. Following the success of Angels Fallen, Ali is currently in production stages of the sequel, titled Angels Fallen 2 : Warriors of peace which stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Denise Richards and Randy Couture.
