Ahmed Muztaba Zamal

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal is a Bangladeshi film critic. He is the editor of Celluloid, a quarterly film magazine, and is the director of the Dhaka International Film Festival.[1]

Biography

Zamal first attended a film festival, the Munich Film Festival, in 1991. The following year he started the Dhaka International Film Festival.[2]

Major film festivals, in addition to the juries selected by the festival to award its prizes, often feature independent juries that follow their own criteria to award their own prizes. Zamal was a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) independent jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 and 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002, 2005 and 2009, and at the Venice Film Festival in 2007.[1][2]

Zamal has directed several documentaries, starting with Truth and Beyond (2006), which explores Islam in Bangladesh.[3][4] Later that year he made Smritir Minar (A Monument of Memories), which records Bangladeshi participation in the 2006 Vijay Diwas (Victory Day) ceremonies of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army in Kolkata. The event commemorates the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Bangladesh Liberation War.[5] His 2011 Pahela Baishakh shows the Bengali New Year festivities.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ahmed Muztaba Zamal". The International Federation of Film Critics. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. ^ a b Sadia Khalid (2018-05-18). "A Bangladeshi film critic's journey to Cannes, Berlin, Venice and more". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  3. ^ "11th (2006): Truth and Beyond". Busan International Film Festival. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  4. ^ a b "Documentary on Pahela Baishakh receives Indian award". The Daily Star. 2012-04-26.
  5. ^ Ershad Kamol (2007-01-09). "A medley of movies on Liberation War". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2019-05-21.


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