Ghasem Ebrahimian formed Ebrafilms with Coleen Higgins in 1980 and the company produced over forty documentaries for Italian and French televisions among other commercial productions.
His feature film The Suitors, which he wrote and directed, was an official selection for Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and was nominated for Camera d’OR. The Suitors was theatrically released in the US and was shown on Germany’s WDR and UK’s Channel 4.
In 1997, he began his collaboration with Shirin Neshat on a number of filmed video installations as director of photography and co-writer. Their first collaboration, Turbulent, won the first international prize at 1999 Venice Biennale. The following installations: Rapture- Soliloquy- Possessed- Fervor- Pulse and Mahdokht have been shown in Museums and galleries around the world.
His film, The Sacred, The Absurd, about the last day in the life of celebrated Iranian writer, Sadegh Hedayat, premiered at Victoria and Albert Museum in London and was nominated for best short film at Tribeca Film Festival in 2005.
Ghasem’s feature screenplay writing credits include Tranquility in the Presence of Others, A Soldier of Misfortune with Hubert Selby Jr. (author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream), Absolute Faith, based on his story which he co-wrote with Donald E. Westlake. His screenplay Camelia/aka Remis, based on a true story about a female journalist in Iran, is to go into production in 2014. For UK based company Matmedia he wrote Rumi, about the life and time of the great Persian poet.
Ghasem was commissioned by Arte and Matmedia to write the screenplay for House of Wisdom: The Genius of Baghdad about the historical founding of Baghdad and the emergence of the house of wisdom that gave rise to five hundred years of documented scientific and artistic achievements. His screenplay Shakespeare in Tehran has been optioned by Daria Jovicic of Latitude Media. He directed Shakespeare in Tehran in 2014.
