Zia Mojabi
- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Zia Mojabi is an LA-based stage and screen writer. His writing career
began at college in Cambridge, England, where he wrote and directed
sketch comedies for the campus company. He also directed the alumni
productions of a few British stage standards while at Birmingham
University. After getting his degree, he moved to Spain, working at
Madrid's prestigious Filmoteca Nacional while studying film theory,
polishing his Spanish and co-writing with various Madrid writers. He
later emigrated to Canada where he wrote and directed some experimental
shorts and one teleplay for the Toronto-based CableNet which won him
the CableNet award. He then moved to LA to fully focus on
the business and pleasures of writing and directing for movies and television. In addition
to his writing-directing career, Zia has also served as the senior vice president
of Nielsen Entertainment, the premier motion picture research and
marketing firm where he advised Sony, Paramount, Disney, Fox and Universal.
