Excerpts: Houston native Akil A.K. Kurji, a 22-year-old director of low-budget movies, plans on making a name for himself in the hip-hop video scene with “Swagger.” He produced and directed the video with platinum-selling rapper, Lil Flip. The rumor mill is that Lil Flip is also planning to launch an energy drink with Kurji.
It was then, in June 2009, that Kurji and his video production partner Nadeem Rajani of Cross Culture Productions in Houston put together their personal capital to invest into completing Moon’s album, starting On the Mark Records.
At the young age of 16 Akil Kurji knew he wanted to become a film producer. Through his ambitions and diligent endeavors he teamed up with Nadeem Rajani’ and formed Cross Culture Productions.
He has studied film at the University of Miami majoring in Political Science and Motion Pictures. He made his first feature film at the age of 19 titled Aaj Kal (2009) and has continued to engage in new and exciting projects of which include Tremens (2009) and the first ever Bollywood Spoof film titled Desi Movie (2010).
He resides in Miami and continues to develop various projects mainly concentrating on cross culture films releasing in the near future, directing and producing music videos and developing a Laguna Beach spin off titled Miracle Mile.
Source: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/
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