Biography

An award-winning director/writer in both feature films and television. He has a Masters Film Degree with Distinction earned at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where Farhad's student film, Frames, won an Emmy and 17 international First Place awards, including at the New York Film Festival. Lee Strasberg saw Frames on Showtime and invited Farhad to study in his Masters Program where Farhad directed several theatrical productions.

Farhad created the visual effects, wrote and directed the feature film, Lawnmower Man 2 for New Line Cinema. He directed the critically acclaimed Face of Fear, the Dean Koontz best-selling novel and MOW for CBS.

Max Headroom, Farhad's pilot, which received top-notch ratings, was picked up by ABC and won several Emmy's. His next pilot, Knight Watch, was picked up by ABC and a third pilot he directed, Nick Knight, which became the long-running Forever Knight, was picked up by CBS.

Farhad's commercials, for top-drawer clients including Pepsi, Toyota, McDonalds, Coors, American Express, Chevrolet, Budweiser, Coke and others, won fifty-seven international awards, including three Clio Awards, Chicago Film Festival, the IBA Award and the New York Film Festival.

Farhad is presently in post production on his feature, Love Orchard. He just completed the opener of The Listener, episodes of Degrassi and My Babysitter is a Vampire for Disney. Farhad directed The Devil's Diary, which became the highest rated Movie-of-the-Week of that year, as well as directing several shows for the Sci-Fi Channel, the internationally acclaimed Regenesis, and the award winning Murdoch, now in it's sixth season.
- IMDb mini biography by: Farhad Mann

Farhad Mann is an award-winning American director, screenwriter of film, television and commercials, and owner of the production company FMPI. He is directing Viacom's new pilot In Contempt.

Farhad has directed several episodes for Beauty and the Beast, The Listener, Murdoch Mysteries, and Aaron Stone, among others. Notable feature films include Fighting for Freedom, staring Academy Award and Emmy nominee Bruce Dern, Kristana Loken, Jose Maria Yazpik, and Patricia De Leon. Also, he wrote and directed Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace for New Line Cinema. His first pilot Max Headroom on ABC won several Emmys. The next pilot he directed, Nick Knight, which became the long-running Forever Knight, was picked up by CBS.

Farhad directed the critically acclaimed TV movie adaption of Dean Koontz's best-selling novel, The Face of Fear. He most recently directed the TV movies A Mother's Crime, Can't Buy My Love, and Twist of Fate.

Farhad is also the creator and owner of the Los Angeles based commercial production company FMPI, a producer of award winning campaigns for many domestic and international clients.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Reimer