Ali Limonadi

Ali Limonadi (Persian: علی لیمونادی) is an Iranian-born American film and television director, television producer, and journalist. He was the founder of IRTV (acronym for "Iranian television"; Persian:تلویزیون ایرانیان) in Los Angeles, the first television representation of the Iranian diaspora in the United States.

Early life and career Ali Limonadi was born in Tehran. After high school he moved to Germany. From 1962 until 1968, he studied film directing and cinematography at the Berlin University of the Arts (German: Universität der Künste Berlin). "Das Abonnement" is one of his films which was screened in 1967 on that time. He initially planned to stay for one year. He had his own television broadcasting studio based in Studio City, Los Angeles, and he would periodically rent it out. He produced the television series, Iranian. Bootleg copies of his show Iranian were smuggled into Iran (via Europe) in the 1980s.

In 2007, Limonadi was getting thousands of virus-filled emails which he attributed to "Iranian government agents".

Films Der Deutsche, 1966 Das Abonnement, 1967

Book - One hundred years of struggle towards democracy in Iran (Ali Limonadi's interviews with politicians); Edited by Qasem Beykzadeh. Iranian Archive and Research Foundation, Los Angeles, 2013. (in Persian)