Navid Mahmoudi was born in 1980, in Parvan, Afghanistan. He and his family moved to Iran when he was very young and from a very young age he has been interested in films and cinema and developed a passion for the art. He started his professional career as an assistant director and went on to direct his own short films and produce other works. He has been a producer on more than 10 television Movies. He produced his first feature A few Cubic Meters of Love (2012), directed by his brother Jamshid Mahmoudi, which was selected to represent Afghanistan in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards® in 2014 and it screened at more than 30 international festivals and won eight awards. In 2016, he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, Parting, and in 2019 produced his brother’s second film, Rona, Azim’s Mother, for which he was nominated for an APSA.
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