Age: 45
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Zal Batmanglij is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote the 2011 film Sound of My Voice and the 2013 film The East, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Batmanglij was born in France to Iranian parents. His mother is the cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij, and his younger brother Rostam Batmanglij is a member of the band Vampire Weekend. Both brothers are gay. Batmanglij grew up in Washington, DC, in the United States. He studied anthropology and English at Georgetown University, graduating in 2002. There he met Mike Cahill in a philosophy class. They took a screenwriting course together and produced a short film that won the Georgetown Film Festival. Brit Marling saw the short film and asked if she could work with them. Several years later, after Marling's graduation, the three friends moved to Los Angeles, California, where Batmanglij attended the American Film Institute Conservatory. For his thesis film, he made a 35mm short called The Recordist (2007), which starred Marling.
Zal Batmanglij
The OA
for The OA in Marvels The God Without Chains (Season 1)
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The multiversal fracture has torn the Olympian Pantheon from their realm. Gods, stripped of their worship, now walk among mortals — forgotten, bitter, and untethered from their purpose. Hercules, once the champion of Olympus, awakens in New Alexandria, a city built in the ruins of collapsed timelines. He is bruised, amnesiac, and chained in a fighting pit, forced to battle other former “myths” for the amusement of those who no longer believe in gods — only power. Freed by a mysterious figure — a woman named Miriam, who claims to be a descendant of Orpheus — Hercules begins a journey across the ruins of forgotten realms and broken dimensions, trying to find what remains of Olympus and understand whether the gods should rise again… or stay buried. But something is hunting the old gods. A presence calling itself Oblivion, a shadow of anti-belief, moving to erase all remaining traces of divine legacy.
