Farhoud Meybodi, Director 

Farhoud Meybodi is a law school dropout turned director, and entrepreneur focused on storytelling that inspires culture change. He's the Founder of Ritual Arts, and over the past twelve years has collaborated on a variety of television and digital projects that have been seen over two billion times, raised millions of dollars for terminal illness research, and even helped overturn an unjust Presidential Executive Order in the United States. Farhoud serves as a member of the Television Academy and the Director's Guild of America.

He teaches an upper-division business course on brand sponsored storytelling for social impact at Loyola Marymount University. At his core, Farhoud believes in the transformative power of storytelling to help heal the political/social divide of the present day. He has also executive produced, and directed several episodes of My Last Days, a documentary series about extraordinary people living with terminal illness yet thriving through their experience. The show has amassed over 100 million views and is in its fifth season on The CW Network. Subjects from My Last Days have inspired two feature films, Five Feet of Apart (CBS FIlms) and Clouds (Disney+).