Ramzi Abed is an American film & video director, cinematographer, actor, performer and visual artist based on Planet Earth.
He has worked in and around the entertainment industry for over 25 years.
His film, The Devil's Muse (starring Kristen Kerr, Gidget Gein, Cinque Lee), streamed on Netflix for nearly two years and was distributed by Cinetic Rights Management, Gunpowder and Sky, and Halo 8 Entertainment respectively in digital and home video formats. It is now streaming at TromaNow. His experimental reality-based thriller, Telephone World (starring Elissa Dowling), was released on home video by Cinema Epoch and is currently streaming on Tubi.
Ramzi recently directed the music video for "A Free Society", the title song from the debut album by Night Crickets, a jazzy post-punk supergroup comprised of David J Haskins (of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) and Victor De Lorenzo (of Violent Femmes) and renowned musician, Darwin Meiners. Abed's film work has been distributed and also screened at numerous film festivals over the years. His short film, The Tunnel, was edited by renowned filmmaker, David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight), and starred co-writer Casey Wickson, Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger), and Mark Borchardt (American Movie, Coven). The Super 16mm film went on to screen at many festivals all over the world.
Abed's latest feature films are First Person Savior and Let Love In. First Person Savior stars John Karyus (Foxfur, V/H/S/2), James Duval (Nowhere, Donnie Darko), Dawn Wirth, Erica Libonati and is about and inspired by gun violence and video games in modern America. Let Love In stars Victoria De Mare (Dust Up, Stripped), Sophia Jade (Killer Looks) and Ramzi Abed, and is about both shame and love against a backdrop of the world of adult films (based on his years as AVN award-nominated adult performer, Brock Doom, having worked with erotic stars including Amarna Miller, Lauren Phillips, Lilly Bell, Aaliyah Hadid, Lila Lovely, Vanna Bardot, Loni Legend and Nina Hartley).