Jamil Dehlavi

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Jamil Dehlavi (born: Calcutta) is a London-based film director and producer of Pakistani-French origin.[1]

Background

Dehlavi was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), British India to an Indian father and a French mother. After independence the family moved to Pakistan where his father joined the Foreign Service, so they travelled extensively. Growing up between Europe and Asia, Dehlavi is fluent in five languages, but has said that he feels emotionally most connected to Karachi. He won a place at Oxford University, graduating with a BA in Politics and French Literature and an MA (Hons) in Jurisprudence. He was subsequently called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn but never practiced law, choosing the world of cinema instead. He studied film directing at Columbia University in New York where he was awarded a Master of Fine Arts Degree.

Career

While studying there he also trained as an actor with Stella Adler and made his first feature film Towers of Silence which he wrote, produced and directed. It won the Grand Prize at the Festival of the Americas. His next film The Blood of Hussain was selected by the Director's Fortnight at Cannes and won the Grand Prize at the Taormina Film Festival. All his subsequent films have also won awards at film festivals all over the world.

Dehlavi has worked on various projects for the BBC, Channel Four, and French television, including Qâf – The Sacred Mountain which won awards at five environmental film festivals and Passover, a passion play shot in Cordoba made in collaboration with the celebrated flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. He has also worked in the Radio & Visual Services Division at the United Nations and is currently an Associate Professor at Habib University in Karachi.

Selected Credits

  • 1973 Guitarist
Gold Medal at the Atlanta Film Festival
  • 1976 Towers of Silence (starring Judy Van Hook & Jamil Dehlavi)
Grand Prize at the Festival of the Americas
Director's Fortnight Cannes Film Festival
Grand Prize Taormina Film Festival
Gold Award Houston Film Festival
  • 1984 "QÂF the Sacred Mountain"
Best Environmental Film Jackson Hole Mountain Film Festival
Special Jury Award Telluride Mountain Film Festival –
Silver Gentian Best Mountain Film Trento Mountain Film Festival –
Diable d'Or Les Diablerets, Switzerland –
Best Environmental Documentary Houston Film Festival –
  • 1986 Born of Fire (Starring Peter Firth & Suzan Crowley)
Official Selection Avoriaz Film Festival
Gold Award Best Feature Film Houston Film Festival
Catalan Award Imagfic Madrid
  • 1992 Immaculate Conception (starring Melissa Leo, James Wilby, Shabana Azmi,
& Zia Mohyeddin)
Panorama Berlin Film Festival
Special Jury Prize Dinard Film Festival
  • 1996 Passover (starring Jorge de Juan & Belen Fernandez)
  • 1997 Passion in the Desert (Producer) (starring Ben Daniels & Michel Piccoli)
  • 1998 Jinnah (starring Christopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitkin & Shashi Kapoor)
Gold Award Best Foreign Film Worldfest Flagstaff
Silver Award Houston Film Festival
Grand Prize Zanzibar International Film Festival
FIPRESCI International Critics Prize
Best European Feature Film European Independent Film Festival, Paris
Robert Rodriguez Prize for Excellence Hollywood DV Festival
Critic's Prize Amiens International Film Festival
Audience Award Florence River to River Festival
Special Jury Award Worldfest Houston
Raza Jaffrey Best Supporting Actor Karafilm Festival, Karachi
  • 2010 Godforsaken (starring Annabel Wright, Trevor White & Nick Ashdon)
Golden Palm Award Mexico International Film Festival
Special Jury Remi and Best International Film Award Worldfest Houston
Grand Prize Tirana International Film Festival

References

  1. ↑ Jamil Dehlavi Profile on Habib University. Retrieved 28 August 2013

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