# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farhad-safinia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:41:44.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farhad-safinia"
name: "Farhad Safinia"
slug: "farhad-safinia"
description: "Farhad Safinia is an Iranian-American screenwriter, film/TV producer and director, best known for Apocalypto, Boss, and The Professor and the Madman. He was credited under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the latter."
tagline: "Iranian-American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9uA29cZi2VnXVlCiWsKx9e5w7lc.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.66
  momentum:             0.6512505899008967
  historical:           10.91042266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1731154/"
    handle:    "nm1731154"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرهاد سافينيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرهاد سافينيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B5%D9%81%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "فرهاد صفی‌نیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Safinia"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Сафиния, Фархад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959115"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17655"
    title: "Farhad Safinia"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump