Director of the first Arab-language Disney feature film, The United (due in theaters early 2012) and Writer/Director of the 2008 Sundance-winning Jordanian feature film, Captain Abu Raed, Amin has an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. With 28 international award s, Captain was Jordan's first-ever entry into the Oscars. Originally from Jordan, little Amin immigrated to the US with his family in 1989, went on to study business at Ohio State University, and worked in the technology field for six years. Then one day in 2003 he decided to start over and pursue his childhood dream of filmmaking. He moved to Los Angeles with his dogs, Cello and Oboe, and made 17 short films before getting into AFI. Today he lives in LA with his wife Claire and their dogs. Having completed two feature films, he continues to write screenplays and is in development to direct his next film early next year.

A big film score collector. His heroes growing up were Michael Kamen, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Basil Poledouris, Bernard Herrman, John Barry, Hans Zimmer, and Danny Elfman.