Iranian of the Day

Bahman Naraghi is head of Red Envelope Entertainment, the newly established original content division of Netflix, Inc.. He has more than fifteen years of studio, production and corporate finance experience, and a background that affords an international perspective on cinema. Naraghi is responsible for leading the acquisition and funding of dozens of original titles each year, focusing on independent films, foreign-language projects and documentaries. While offering filmmakers a national platform for unique projects, Red Envelope Entertainment extends Netflix‚s original content initiative which, since 2000, has given audiences a first, and often exclusive, peek at nearly 60 films, including the Oscar®-winning documentary Born Into Brothels and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival favorite The Puffy Chair>>>