Kamran Pasha

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Kamran Pasha (

Golden Globe for Best Miniseries in 2005[4] and for an Emmy for Best Miniseries in 2006.[5] Pasha has also written for The CW series Nikita, Reign and Roswell, New Mexico as well as the Disney XD animated show Tron: Uprising.[2]

In 2011, Pasha was hired to rewrite a movie screenplay entitled "The Immaculate" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and producer Charles Segars. The film follows an agnostic government agent assigned to protect a 17-year-old boy who some people believe is the Messiah.[6]

Pasha wrote his first video game for the hip hop artist 50 Cent in 2008. The game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, is the sequel to the bestselling 50 Cent: Bulletproof and is distributed by Vivendi Games.[7]

Early career

Pasha was born on 3 April 1972 in

college newspaper, The Dartmouth
.

After graduating, Pasha worked as a journalist for the

Peruvian president, Alberto Fujimori.[8]

He left journalism in 1996 and attended Cornell Law School.[11] He subsequently enrolled in the MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and graduated with a joint law/business degree in 2000.[12]

Move into film industry

Pasha briefly worked as an attorney at the

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and graduated in 2003.[13]

His first television writing job was as a staff writer on UPN's remake of the classic series The Twilight Zone.[14]

In 2003, Pasha set up his first feature film project, a historical epic on the love story of the

Kite in collaboration with the director Rob Cohen and the producer Anant Singh.[16] He has also written screen adaptations of the Japanese horror film Ghost Actress by the director Hideo Nakata and adapted Deepak Chopra's novel, Soulmate.[17]

Pasha spent two years as a writer and co-producer for Sleeper Cell. In 2007, he signed on as a producer of NBC's Bionic Woman.[18]

Pasha wrote and directed the short film Miriam, which won the Gaia Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in August 2008.[19] The award is given to those who "elucidate and improve the spiritual quality of all life on the planet, and contribute[...] to the betterment of the world spirit".[20]

Personal life

In 2008, Pasha accompanied his mother on the

Huffington Post.[21]

Books

Pasha sold his first two novels to

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin during the Third Crusade.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b Pasha, Kamran (2008-12-07). "A Hollywood Screenwriter Goes to Mecca". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  2. ^
    Internet Movie Database
    . Retrieved 2007-05-02..
  3. ^ Smith, Lynn (2005-07-31). "Showtime's 'Sleeper Cell' brings terrorism home". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  4. ^ "63rd Golden Globe Awards Nominations". Golden Globes. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 2005-12-13. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  5. ^ Levin, Gary (2006-07-06). "Emmy barely budges from nomination rut". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  6. ^ McNary, Dave. "SKE puts a mark on 'The Immaculate'". Variety. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
  7. Fox Business Network. 2008-03-27. Archived from the original
    on 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  8. ^ a b c "BIOS". Network of South Asian Professionals – Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  9. ^ "dartmouth class of '93". Dartmouth College. 2005-08-12. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  10. ^ "HONORS THESES IN RELIGION: 1975-2006" (PDF). Dartmouth College. Retrieved 2007-05-02.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Cornell Law School Student Email Addresses". Cornell Law School. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  12. ^ "Interesting Links". Tuck2000.com. 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  13. ^ "Immigrants of the Week". Immigration Daily. 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  14. CNET Networks, Inc.
    2007. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  15. Asia Times Online. Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2007-05-02.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link
    )
  16. ^ "Scribe Hired For Rob Cohen's 'Kite' Adaptation". KillerMovies. 2004-01-20. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  17. ^ "SOULMATE". Artsmart. 2003-09-24. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
  18. ^ "The Bionic Woman". Variety. 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
  19. ^ "Moondance 2008 Winners". Moondance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  20. ^ "Moondance Awards". Moondance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  21. Huffington Post
    . Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  22. ^ "Reading the Past". ReadingThePast.Blogspot.Com. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-10..

External links

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