Dastan Khalili

Dastan Khalili, filmmaker, charitable force, and poet, infuses humanity and global consciousness into everything he does. An award-winning director and writer, his latest film, the action/drama film, The Way, has garnered more than fifty awards and nine nominations worldwide. Khalili began his filmmaking career in 1995 after graduating with a BA from the Pomona University Theater Academy. His first feature film, which he both directed and starred in, a psychological thriller, Insomnia Manica, premiered in 2005 and was called by the LA Times "an elegantly shot mood piece set amid the downtown LA lost crowd, and the intense Khalili creates a striking screen presence." Since then, he has directed nine feature films, including the 2018 award winning documentary, Master, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, which tells the story of Master Zhou Ting, a globally recognized Qigong, Tai Chi and Kung Fu Grandmaster. His first book of poetry, 90 Two, based on a two word line format Khalili calls