BIO

Ali Imran Zaidi is an LA-based TV, feature and audio series writer of thrillers, sci-fi, crime and alt-history. He’s currently writing an original narrative audio series alongside Hillman Grad Productions, with Janina Gavankar and Hasan Minhaj attached to co-produce and star. He’s a 2022 Black List Feature Lab participant, and a fellow in Riz Ahmed’s Pillars Fund Artist Fellowship, sponsored by Amazon Studios and Netflix. He was also selected for the 2022 Hollywood Muslim List.

Lit Management:
Antonio D’Intino
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A Little More…

A Florida escapee, Imran has lived on 3 continents and worked odd jobs ranging from processing mountains of gulf shrimp at a fishhouse, to building PCs and software in a hangar near Travolta’s secret lair. His stories are spiked with that diverse and often darkly comedic experience.

He has been featured on John August’s Scriptnotes, had an alt-history TV pilot featured on The Black List (JOHN BLACK RAVEN), completed an MPAC TV Drama Screenwriting Lab, and a Canon Filmmaker Lab on Directing, Cinematography, Producing and Editing. Also a 2020 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi TV PILOT WINNER (PSEUDOSAMINA), and multi-occasion feature semifinalist and finalist at the Austin Film Festival.

He’s also an occasional dabbler in experimental fiction and directing & cinematography.

And people say his pages are nice.