Emud Mokhberi

Emud Mokhberi (born February 1978, Michigan) is an Iranian-American film director.[1] In 2009, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Oktapodi. Oktapodi was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.

Emud Mokhberi
BornFebruary 1978
Michigan, U.S.
Websitehttp://emud.org

After a childhood spent in Tehran and Stockholm, Emud Mokhberi moved to Southern California in 1993 and shortly thereafter started his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. After returning to UCLA for a master's degree in computer graphics, he was introduced to animation and subsequently studied film at the UCLA School of Film, Theater, and Television and Gobelins, l'école de l'image in Paris, France. In 2007, he directed Oktapodi with five other students at Gobelins: Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Quentin Marmier, and Thierry Marchand.[2]

Filmography
gollark: I've heard it said that it works more to teach conformity, or make people happier with low level abuse.
gollark: "What, you can just *look up* that information in ten seconds? Nope! Not allowed! Let us never speak of such things."
gollark: Or forcing people to memorize useless information they will never need so that they can remember it for long enough to write down the right bits in an exam so that someone can say that they Know™ this subject... oh wait.
gollark: Also, universities are horribly expensive in the UK, even though meanwhile on the other side of the Scottish border they manage to provide free tuition, which is, er, bad.
gollark: So could most things.

References
  1. "Industry Directory". uniFrance. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  2. "Accidental Animator". CG Society. 2008-10-07. Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
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