Paul Emami is an accomplished filmmaker with over 400 commercial and television credits. He is the founder of Storytellerz; a Los Angeles based commercial production company. Mr. Emami’s commercial credits include projects for McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Sony, Nokia, Pioneer, Marriott Hotels, Staples, Ikea, Arista Records and Sony Music, just to name a few. He is represented domestically and internationally as a commercial director.

Mr. Emami has directed two feature films, “Finding Mona” (in association with Goldstar Pictures) and “To Life” starring Geoffrey Broderick, Jr. (in association with Ruby Pictures). Most recently, Mr. Emami produced and served as director of photography on the feature film “LOST” starring Dean Cain and Danny Trejo.

Mr. Emami is a graduate of USC and has lectured at Chapman University, UCLA Extension, California State University Fullerton, and USC. Mr. Emami has been
recognized by many prestigious directing awards including: Telly Award (1996, 1999, 2005), Golden Angle Award (1997, 1999), CAPA Awards (1995, 1996), Aurora Excellence In Commercial Awards (1998, 1999) and Monitor Directing Award (1999). Mr. Emami has also been recognized by: The Association of Independent Commercial Producers - AICP, The New York Film Festival Advertising Awards and, most recently, The London International Advertising Awards for his work on the Nokia mobile phones campaign.

Paul Emami is a communicator in every sense of the word; communicating to cast, crew and most importantly to the audience. Paul is a director who not only has full command of the storytelling process, but completely understands actors and works freely with them.

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