Born in Tehran, Mohammad Gorjestani moved to the states in 1988 when he was four and attended Cupertino High School in California. “Apple was right across the street,” he says, “but I grew up in a poor neighborhood. We barely got by.” Now, Gorjestani runs his own Bay Area commercial production house, MKSHFT, and in January he debuted a 30-minute short, Refuge, for ITVS’ Futurestates series. In the spring he launched an app for Esquire magazine through a software start-up he co-founded, Volio. And next year, he hopes, there will be his first feature, Somehow These Days Will Be Missed, … Continue reading Mohammad Gorjestani