Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী
Born (1973-05-02) May 2, 1973
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Occupation filmmaker
Years active 1999 - present[1]
Spouse(s) Nusrat Imroz Tisha[2]

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী; born May 2, 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer.[3] Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema, those who have bridged the gap between escapism and reality. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east Asian filmmaker to break out”, The Hollywood Reporter wrote in the review of his film Television. Variety’s Jay Weissberg wrote. “Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement”. He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called "Chabial".

Career

He is a young director in Bangladesh who has set a new trend in terms of presentation and direction in the late 1990s. His first two films, which he considers to be an educational effort, were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007). Bachelor was big hit among the youth and opened up a new road for young cinema. His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi). His latest feature Television was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival 2012 and was awarded a special mention at Dubai International Film Festival. It then traveled around the world and got a warm reception. It has also been selected as Bangladesh submission to 86 Academy Awards foreign language category.[4]

Cinematic style

Farooki's body of work address such themes as middle class angst, urban youth romance, deception-hypocrisy and frailty of individual, frustration about the confines of one's culture and conservative Muslim concepts of guilt and redemption.

Filmography

Year Film Achievement
2013 Ant Story [5] [6]
2012 Television
  • Closing film in Busan International Film Festival 2012 (world premiere)
  • Bangladesh’s submission to 86th Academy award foreign language category. [7]
  • Winner, Jury Grand Prize Asia Pacific Screen Award, 2013.
  • Nominated, Best Film, Asia Pacific Screen Award, 2013.
  • Nominated, Best Screenplay, Asia Pacific Screen Award, 2013.
  • Winner, City of Rome award (jury) for best Asian Feature Film, Asiatica 2013, Rome-Italy.
  • Winner, Best Feature Film, Audience Award, Asiatica 2013, Rome-Italy.
  • Winner, Golden Hanuman Award, Jogja Asian Film Festival, 2013 [8]
  • Winner NETPAC award Kolkata International Film Festival, 2013 [9]
  • Winner, Special mention award, Muhr AsiaAfrica Dubai International Film Festival 2012.
  • Nominated Best screenplay & best cinematography, Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, 2012
  • Nominated Lino Brocka Grand Prize, Cinemanila International Film Festival 2012
  • awarded Asian cinema fund for script development and Post-Production from Busan International Film Festival
  • awarded Gothenburg Film Festival fund 2010 for script development
  • Official Project, Asian Project Market 2010, Busan International Film Festival
  • Official Project, Film Bazaar India, 2010.
2009 Third Person Singular Number[10] Premiered in - Pusan International Film Festival (2009)
Official selection - International Film Festival Rotterdam (2010)
Official competition - Middle East International Film Festival (2009)
Winner Best Director - Dhaka International Film Festival (2010)
Official competition - Tiburon International (2010)
Official competition - Festival Cinema Africano,Asia,America,Latina,Milano,Italy (2010)
2007 Made In Bangladesh
2003 Bachelor - New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest
- Third Eye IFF Mumbai
- Asiaticafilmmediale Rome

Chabial

Farooki is the founder of Chabial, a film makers club. These group of young film makers are used to be Farooki's assistant directors. They have then used local cable television networks as a platform to master their hands in story telling and created an audience for the stories they tell. Their works have managed to connect primarily with the youth in urban and suburban parts of the Bangladeshi society for the realism in story topics and realism in execution.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ছবি বানাতে টাকার চেয়ে বেশি দরকার মেধা : মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 
  2. ↑ "Tisha-Farooki wedding photo album". Prothom-Alo. Retrieved 2012-11-17. 
  3. ↑ "Hoping for a revolution in films". theindependentdigital. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 
  4. ↑ http://variety.com/2013/film/news/bangladesh-turns-on-television-for-oscar-race-1200656668/.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ http://m.screendaily.com/5064668.article.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/farooki-on-fibbing-fantasy-and-box-office.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ http://variety.com/2013/film/news/bangladesh-turns-on-television-for-oscar-race-1200656668/.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ http://jaff-filmfest.org/2013-pemenang-kompetisi/.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ http://www.risingbd.com/english/detailsnews.php?nssl=8e5d5b79456a8e2bc09e54e9e518a5f1&nttl=9677#.UonMUI2Qx69.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ Ershad Kamol. "Mostofa Sarwar Farooki talks his style". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 

External links

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/bangladesh-turns-on-television-for-oscar-race-1200656668

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