Spring hasn’t even begun and yet there is already one highlight coming up you just can’t miss: Distant Fortune, Shaheen Dill-Riaz latest cinematic creation is set to premiere on March 7, 2015. In Distant Fortune filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz chronicles the exploits of several young German volunteers in …
Past is Present in Zurich: Family Business as Usual?
Filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz and the talented group around theater director Corinne Maier will perform their play Past is Present in the city of Zurich the upcoming weekend. The documentary play, which premiered earlier this year focuses on the exceptional family life of Shaheen, whose family is scattered …
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Shaheen Dill-Riaz wins Sonderpreis Kultur des Landes NRW
On Friday, filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz was awarded the Sonderpreis Kultur des Landes NRW for his latest documentary The Projectionist. The Film chronicles the life of Rakib, an 11-year-old boy who works as a projectionist in a small-town cinema in Bangladesh. Mr. Dill-Riaz was presented the award by NRW …
Another Film Prize Goes To The Projectionist
The Projectionist, filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s latest cinematic feat has been awarded the Sonderpreis Kultur des Landes NRW, one of Germany’s most prized film awards. Returning home to his Berlin apartment after two months of filming in his native country of Bangladesh, Shaheen Dill-Riaz was greeted with a huge pile …
The Projectionist: Shaheen Dill-Riaz honored with the GROSSE KLAPPE film award
Filmmaker and director Shaheen Dill-Riaz has added another prize to his growing list of film awards. The jury at the doxs! festival in Duisburg, Germany presented Dill-Riaz with the GROSSE KLAPPE film prize for The Projectionist. His film, which premiered in October, chronicles the life of Rakib, a ten-year-old boy who grows …