Pouya Shahbazian J.D. ’03 was profiled in The Hollywood Reporter. He is a manager-producer at New Leaf Literary & Media, a management/production business that includes the hotly anticipated film Divergent, based on a YA novel Shahbazian discovered and placed at Summit. (He has a producer credit). Among his other high-profile sales: Patrick Lee‘s Runner to Warner Bros. with Justin Lin directing, and Leigh Bardugo‘s Shadow and Boneto DreamWorks.
The London-born book-to-film manager, whose wife is pregnant with their second child, also is doing some writing of his own. He’s co-authoring a YA novel titled Scan, which is set for May release, and then will follow up in 2015 with a sequel, Burn.