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Ian Olds is a director of both narrative and documentary work. He directed Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, a feature-length documentary that follows the relationship between an Afghan interpreter and his client, American journalist Christian Parenti. The film won Best New Documentary Filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival, First Prize of the Jury at Documenta Madrid, and the Special Jury Prize at Pesaro Film Festival. He and Garrett Scott directed the feature documentary Occupation: Dreamland, an in-depth portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the city of Falluja, Iraq. Occupation: Dreamland was short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won a 2006 Independent Spirit Award. Olds’ short fiction films have played at numerous festivals in the US and abroad including Sundance, Los Angeles and Rotterdam in 2007. He received a 2005 Princess Grace Award, a 2006 Media Arts Fellowship sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and was recently named one of the 25 New Faces Of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. Ian received his MFA from Columbia University’s Film Program in 2006.