Ramin Bahrani
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"Ramin Bahrani" is an United States/American Film director/director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop (film)/Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the decade and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program in New York City

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I started working on the story in 2002, [and] worked on it for two years.

The movie is about a guy on the corner of the street who no one wants to pay attention to. I hope you will indulge me in paying attention to him for a little while.