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 …
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 …
I was one of the lucky 750 guests during the opening ceremony of the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, which opened its gates on October 29, 2012. Watching the premiere of the film Are you listening? by Kamar Ahmad Simon (director / cameraman) and Sara Afreen (producer) was …