Bavand Karim Award-Winning Filmmaker

Bavand Karim is an award-winning creative executive whose career spans print journalism, scripted and unscripted TV, narrative and documentary films, and branded content. He is the founder of Be Positive Pictures (2008), Lost Winds Entertainment (2011), and CINE International Companies (2017). Karim has produced media for major studios including Starz, Showtime, Fox, and WGBH, and directed advertising campaigns for SEC Network, Old Spice, Powerade, Duralast, and H-E-B. His original films include the award-winning documentaries, Nation of Exiles (2010) and Hate Crimes in the Heartland (2016). His work has been screened and honored at prestigious film festivals, distributed on Netflix and Amazon, and qualified for the Academy Awards.