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Essy Niknejad was engaged to Sujin Nam the film composer, from 2006.

He went to the California institute of Arts, at Cal Arts and graduating with a Master Fine Arts, in Film & Television (1990), meanwhile he got a chance to direct a few segment of TV series (Eye on LA) for ABC and as result he got more TV episode to direct such as (Sighting) for Fox. Essy Niknejad culminated his educational, enrolling at Wayne State University at Michigan State for his Ph. D. in Film & Television.

His Immigration into the US in 1986, made him to continue his education.

As an aggressive and out speaking filmmaker, Essy Niknejad set out to make his new miniseries, about a divorced woman in world of ideology, "The Fall of Sahara", (1985), later on "The Fall of Sahara" was broadcast syndicated stateside on PBS in the US (1994).

Writing and directing feature film was his authenticity of life, "Bloody Rice" (1984) inspire by true story with political controversial subject matter traveled to the Tashkent Film Festival in USSR and received an Honorary Diploma, an award that garnered him attention internationally as Director amongst the independent film community.

One of his feature documentaries, "Barricade" (1983) made him a household name.

Right after his graduation, in the midst of his country at war, he made five documentaries (1982-84).

Essy Niknejad was born on June 1960, in Tehran. He was 13 years old when he met the Swedish filmmaker, 'Ingmar Bergman'. Since then, he has been inspired to make movies. His desire and aspiration for writing, directing and producing movie started at very young age in his homeland. He made several short and feature films before finished his college.