Filmmaker Kevin Hamedani started Razi Films in 2003 after the production of his second feature film Bookends. Since then, the company has had tremendous success including the production of the award-winning short The Love of C.A. (2003).

Kevin Hamedani was born in 1982 in Kent, Washington. His family re-located to Edmonds, Washington in 1986. There, Kevin attended the Edmonds-Woodway High School, which had just started a new high tech digital video production program. At age 18, Hamedani used the equipment from the school to write, direct, score, and edit his first feature film entitled Clothes (2001). The film was a semi-autobiography revolving around high school students and their hardships of self-discovery. The movie premiered at the Edmonds Movie Theater.

In 2001 Hamedani enrolled at the University of Washington. There he attended the Digital Arts and Experimental Media School headed by acclaimed artist Shawn Brixey. Hamedani wrote and directed several shorts including the Seattle Student Film Festival award-winning documentary The Love of C.A.

Before graduating from the University of Washington with an honors degree in Cinema Studies, Hamedani wrote and directed two more features, Bookends (2003) and The Unfinished Novel by the Man Who Ate Himself (2004). Since then, he has produced, directed and edited several demo reels, commercials and promotional videos for artists and companies all around the world including the promotional video for Bollywood star Chadana Dixit and the Profession: Journalist segment for the national Russian television station NTV.

Currently, Kevin Hamedani is in post-production on his latest feature, ZMD. This feature horror/comedy is produced by Academy Award nominee John Sinno (“Iraq in Fragments”).