 He also worked on independent films such as the American/Brazilian production "The Interview" (1997, writer/co-producer), which played at Sundance and on the Showtime network; and "Norma Jean, Jack and Me" (1998), a film that was not theatrically released but played the festival circuit and aired on HDNet.In 2001, Nowrasteh wrote and directed the highly rated, award-winning Showtime presentation "The Day Reagan Was Shot", which starred Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and was executive produced by Oliver Stone.The following year he wrote "10,000 Black Men Named George", the story of the Pullman strike of the 1930s, for Showtime.