Farhaad Virani is currently Associate General Counsel at Amazon Studios where he oversees the legal team supporting development of Amazon’s original scripted series and feature films, including Comedy, Drama, Genre, Kids, and Young Adult programming, as well as local-language content for India, Japan, Europe and Latin America.  Prior to his time at Amazon Studios he supported Amazon’s music business in Seattle, and prior to that he was a transactional real estate attorney working in the wine industry, clean tech, and commercial real estate in San Francisco and Houston.  Farhaad currently serves on the board of directors of Outfest Film Festival and the ACLU of Southern California.  He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2004 and Rice University with a B.A. in Economics in 2001.