Traditionally the world of Cinema has been dominated by the Americans, French and Italians. In the world of Film, the Persian Community is a force to be reckoned with. Recently, I heard about an up and coming Director, Jian Cyrus Farhoumand, who is getting the Buzz in Europe about his movie 'The Night Is Young', shot on 35mm, 16mm, and HD. This movie is about a group of friends who travel across town one night in search of a party. What begins as a straight forward drive soon becomes an urban odyssey. Altercations at the video shop, arguments at the news-agent, disagreements with drug-dealers, banter in the back-seat and run-ins with the local police all combine to create a moving and memorable story of youth finding its way.
A guerrilla film shot on a shoe-string budget, Farhoumand acquired his Konv

as 35mm movie camera from ex-Soviet military stock and his Beaulieu 16mm camera from eBay, and produced the entire film for £5,000 having secured generous support from both Fuji and Soho Images. Shot entirely on location throughout the vibrant city of Brighton & Hove on the south coast of England, Farhoumand secured all locations for free with the support and enthusiasm of his fellow Brightonians. The film is semi-autobiographical, based in part on some of Farhoumand's own experiences growing up there.
Farhoumand wrote 'The Night Is Young', his first full length feature script at the age of 24, while still studying for his Master's Degree in Film Making at the London Film School. Jian Cyrus Farhoumand was born on January 21, 1979 to two Doctors in London and raised in Brighton, on the South coas

t of England.  As a British national, his background consists of half Persian/half English descent. At Eton College, he first got a taste for creative writing and was awarded the school's creative writing prize, the Gardner Cup for Contribution to Literature. At Edinburgh University he continued his writing, where he completed his first novel 'The Story That Ended the World', and wrote and directed his first play 'The Man Who Went Astray' at the Bedlam Theatre.
 Farhoumand has shot 'The Night Is Young' over the course of the past year and is currently in post-production, editing the film and composing the soundtrack with local Brighton Musicians. Currently at the age of 29, Jian is looking forward to presenting the movie around the world on the 2009 international film festival circuit