Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী; born 2 May 1973) is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and film producer. Farooki is considered one of the leading figures to bring modernism/realism in Bangladeshi Cinema. His works often switch between a real and quasi-real world.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".His 2012 feature Television was the closing film of Busan festival and won Grand Jury Prize in Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013 in addition to 5 more international awards from Dubai, Jogja-Indonesia, Asiatica-Roma, and Kolkata. He has just completed his fifth feature titled Ant Story.
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- http://m.screendaily.com/5081020.article
- http://variety.com/2013/film/news/bangladesh-turns-on-television-for-oscar-race-1200656668
- http://variety.com/2014/film/news/jafar-panahi-mostofa-sarwar-farooki-among-apsa-mpa-award-winners-1201377807
- http://variety.com/2014/film/news/no-lands-man-revolution-win-indias-film-bazaar-1201363549