Amin Matalqa

Biography

Born in Jordan, raised in Columbus, Ohio, and living in Los Angeles for the past 19 years, Sundance-winning writer/director Amin Matalqa makes films about dreamers and unsung heroes. His first feature Captain Abu Raed, won the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award (2008) and was the first Oscar submission from Jordan. Next he directed Disney's soccer drama, The United, followed by Strangely In Love, a Chaplinesque Los Angeles-set romantic comedy featuring Amanda Plummer; and The Rendezvous, a Hitchcockian caper adventure starring Stana Katic (Castle, Absentia) set across the Arabian desert. In Television, he co-wrote the pilot and directed two episodes of Netflix's teenage supernatural thrill...