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Winston-Salem is also the filming location of Goodbye Solo, and the place where Bahrani was born and raised. His parents, Iranian immigrants, still reside there, but he splits his time between his hometown and Brooklyn, while he is not traveling abroad to represent his films in prestigious film festivals such as Cannes and Venice. In the latter, Goodbye Solo was honored the film critics' prize.
Goodbye Solo describes the unexpected friendship of a young taxi driver from Senegal and a tough redneck, who are played by the only professional actors in the film - Souleymane Sy Savane who plays Solo, the cab driver, and Red West who plays William. To create the movie, Bahrani spent six month with a local taxi driver until he became well acquainted with the industry.
Bahrani prefers to draw away from his immediate surrounding. His previous feature Chop Shop focused on the life of a Hispanic garage worker in Queens, New York and his first feature Man Push Cart followed a Pakistani immigrant who was a rock star in his homeland and became a coffee seller in the new land. In fact, the only movie that comes near him is his first short film Backgammon, which takes place in an Iranian-American family and deals with the generation gaps and cultural conflicts.
Backgammon is about the relationship between a young American girl of an Iranian origin and her newly immigrated grandfather through backgammon, a game with deep roots in Iran. Bahrani, himself is the son of Iranian immigrants, travelled to Iran for the first time after the making of Backgammon. Backgammon is currently being restored by the Museum of Modern Arts for Bahrani planned retrospective.
Backgammon Director Praised for New Film
Film director Ramin Bahrani whose movie debut Backgammon from 1998 has been recently underwent restoration, is getting positive reviews for its third full length film Goodbye Solo, expected to be exposed to the audience of the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC on Saturday, April 25, 2009. At the same occasion Bahrani, 34, will be awarded the inaugural Emerging Master award.Winston-Salem is also the filming location of Goodbye Solo, and the place where Bahrani was born and raised. His parents, Iranian immigrants, still reside there, but he splits his time between his hometown and Brooklyn, while he is not traveling abroad to represent his films in prestigious film festivals such as Cannes and Venice. In the latter, Goodbye Solo was honored the film critics' prize.
Goodbye Solo describes the unexpected friendship of a young taxi driver from Senegal and a tough redneck, who are played by the only professional actors in the film - Souleymane Sy Savane who plays Solo, the cab driver, and Red West who plays William. To create the movie, Bahrani spent six month with a local taxi driver until he became well acquainted with the industry.
Bahrani prefers to draw away from his immediate surrounding. His previous feature Chop Shop focused on the life of a Hispanic garage worker in Queens, New York and his first feature Man Push Cart followed a Pakistani immigrant who was a rock star in his homeland and became a coffee seller in the new land. In fact, the only movie that comes near him is his first short film Backgammon, which takes place in an Iranian-American family and deals with the generation gaps and cultural conflicts.
Backgammon is about the relationship between a young American girl of an Iranian origin and her newly immigrated grandfather through backgammon, a game with deep roots in Iran. Bahrani, himself is the son of Iranian immigrants, travelled to Iran for the first time after the making of Backgammon. Backgammon is currently being restored by the Museum of Modern Arts for Bahrani planned retrospective.
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