Age: 57
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Walid Nakschbandi is an award-winning German film producer, journalist, and media executive who currently serves as the CEO of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, a position he assumed in early 2024. Born on August 14, 1968, in Kabul, Afghanistan, he immigrated to Germany, where he studied Political Science and Law in Bonn and Berlin before beginning his career as a political journalist. He spent over two decades with the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, notably serving as the longtime managing director of the television production company AVE and later as Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer of the holding company. As a producer, Nakschbandi is recognized for acclaimed historical and biographical works, including The Diary of Anne Frank (2016), Friedman (2001), and the docudrama Franz Josef Strauß - Ein deutsches Leben (2010). His work has earned numerous accolades, such as the German Television Prize and the Adolf Grimme Prize, cementing his reputation as a leading figure in the German media landscape.
An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into their arranged marriage in this witty, big-hearted debut. After thirty-six years of a dutiful but unhappy arranged marriage, recently divorced Suresh and Lata Raman find themselves starting new paths in life. Suresh is trying to navigate the world of online dating on a website that caters to Indians and is striking out at every turn--until he meets a mysterious, devastatingly attractive younger woman who seems to be smitten with him. Lata is enjoying her newfound independence, but she's caught off guard when a professor in his early sixties starts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Suresh and Lata's daughter, Priya, thinks her father's online pursuits are distasteful even as she embarks upon a clandestine affair of her own. And their son, Nikesh, pretends at a seemingly perfect marriage with his law-firm colleague and their young son, but hides the truth of what his relationship really entails. Over the course of three weeks in August, the whole family will uncover one another's secrets, confront the limits of love and loyalty, and explore life's second chances. Charming, funny, and moving, Late Bloomers introduces a delightful new voice in fiction with the story of four individuals trying to understand how to be happy in their own lives--and as a family.
