Sadik Ahmed

Not to be confused with Sadik Ahmad Turkistani.
Sadik Ahmed
Native name সাদিক আহমেদ
Born 29 March 1977
Bangladesh
Residence London, England
Nationality Bangladeshi
Ethnicity Bengali
Citizenship British
Education Painting and Photography,
MA Cinematography
Alma mater London College of Printing
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
National Film and Television School
Occupation Film director, cinematographer, Screenwriter, film producer
Years active 2007–present
Home town Stamford Hill, London, England
Religion Islam

Sadik Ahmed (Bengali: সাদিক আহমেদ; born 29 March 1977) is a Bangladeshi-born British film director and cinematographer.

Early life

Ahmed was born in Bangladesh, came to England as a child and was brought up in Stamford Hill, London.[1]

Ahmed studied Painting and Photography at London College of Printing Central St Martins School of Art, before going to the National Film and Television School to study MA in Cinematography and graduated in 2006.[2]

Career

As his graduation film Ahmed made Tanju Miah,[3] a National Lottery-funded short which won Best Factual Film at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2007, Best Cinematography at the Kodak Student Commercial Awards 2006.[4] as well as being runner-up in the best newcomer category at the Grierson Awards 2006,[5] TCM classic shorts, Satyajit Ray award, amongst others.[6] The film appeared at the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival.[7]

In 2007, Ahmed later directed a western called The Last Thakur. It was a Channel 4 co-production with Artificial Eye as the distributor. The film was received well by critics and Sight & Sound magazine named The Last Thakur "one of the most confident British debut features since Asif Kapadia's The Warrior (2001)… with which it shares an Asian location and language and a welcome belief in the primacy of visual storytelling."[8]

The film premiered at the London Film Festival[9] and was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival, New York Film Festival,[10] and others and finally had its theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2009.[8]

In January 2010, Ahmed was nominated for a Cinematography Fellowship Award by Arts Council England. He has since then signed into his second feature film, The King of Mirpur, which is an urban cop thriller set in the modern subcontinent.[11]

Filmography

Year Title Notes Credit
2006 Oxford Circus Short Cinematographer
Londres-London
2007 Tanju Miah Cinematographer, director, producer
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness Feature film Cinematographer
Aisha and Nadeem
Night Junkies Feature film
2008 The Last Thakur Cinematographer, director, writer

See also

References

  1. ↑ Clarke, Cath (1 February 2011). "First sight: Sadik Ahmed". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "Sadik Ahmed". National Film and Television School. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Tanju Miah (2006)". New York: The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Student Awards". National Film and Television School. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "Sadik Ahmed Profile". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  6. ↑ Brooke, Michael (16 June 2009). "The Last Thakur". Ethnic Now. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  7. ↑ "Tanju Miah". National Film and Television School. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Brooke, Michael (July 2009). "The Last Thakur". Sight and Sound.
  9. ↑ "Sadik Ahmed's Last Thakur to feature at this year's Times BFI London Film Festival". Kush Promotions Blog. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  10. ↑ Mahmud, Jamil (3 March 2012). "Western approach, Bangladeshi soul". The Daily Star. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  11. ↑ "From the movie set". The Daily Sun. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.

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