Bio
SHORT BIO
With an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Amin Matalqa has made indie and studio films both in the US and the Middle East. His first feature, Captain Abu Raed won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Audience Award in 2008 and became Jordan’s first Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. Next, he directed Disney’s first Arabic film, the soccer dramedy, The United, which filmed in the midst of the Arab revolt in 2011 . With his third feature, Strangely In Love, he made a whimsical LA-set romantic comedy take on Dostoevsky’s novella, White Nights, co-starring Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction); followed by the desert-set action-adventure, The Rendezvous, starring Stana Katic (Castle, Absentia). In television, Amin co-wrote the pilot and directed two episodes of the Netflix teenage supernatural show, Jinn. His most recent film, Sony Affirm’s 5000 Blankets starring Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) has played on 800 screens across the US and goes to streaming in early 2023. Amin lives in Los Angeles with his fiance, Meg Cionni, their daughter Zoey, and their Husky beast, Migo. Between films, he teaches directing at the American Film Institute and Elon University.
Directing Reel: https://vimeo.com/164120523
