I was born and raised in Dhaka, and spent my undergraduate years in St Andrews. I moved to London for work and grad school.
I spent some time in Bangalore in search of creative healing modalities and earned a license to practice as an Art Therapist (ICPEM, CTAA, SDCC.) I am currently the Creative Director of a mental health charity, where I continue this work through practice-based research in public health.
I was educated as an interdisciplinary artist, so my secondary line of work is writing for screen, stage, performance and literary publications, as a way of keeping my artistic practice alive until I can make the time to be be fully immersed back into it.
CURRICULUM VITAE
FELLOWSHIPS & TRAINING
2025 – Nokshikotha Screenwriting Lab: Goopy Bagha Productions & Goethe-Institut
2024 – Diploma in Art Therapy: SDCC (Canada), ICPEM (India) and CTAA Certified Diploma from ASHA, Bangalore
2023 – Creative Access x Penguin Random House Publishing Mentorship
2022 – Women Creators’ Program, South East Asia: Unreal Engine Fellowship with Epic Games and Open Air Films, supported by the Indian chapter of Association Internationale du Film d’Animation (ASIFA).
2021 – Sultana’s Dream: Filmmaking workshop, network and grant pitching lab with Khona Talkies and Goethe-Institut
2021 – Exposition of Young Filmmakers, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka DocLab
2020 – Gender-based violence grant fellowship: Awarded by BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) to Women in Arts Bangladesh
EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE
2025 – Hearth Summit Bangladesh, Art Therapist BIAM, Cox’s Bazar
2024 – Dhaka Flow group therapy, Art Therapist Flow Studio
2023 – Speakbeat Collective: Hope, Poet Bush Theatre
2023 – Snap AR x Royal College of Art workshop, Royal Geographical Society
2023 – SE.XO.XO, Moving Image exhibitor, The Baths Hackney Wicks
2022 – 11:11, Moving Image exhibitor, Hilton Hotel Bankside
2021 – Bangladesh at 50: Book Launch, Poet Turkish Embassy Dhaka
2020 – Open Studio: Nabil Rahman, Artist and Residency Assistant, Weekend House by Marina Tabassum
2020 – ENLIVEN by REVIVAL. Draftsman, 3rd Space
2020 – Whiny Women: Mixed-Media Exhibition, Curator Dhaka Gallery
2019 – Art for Cause, Fine Art Animator, Bangladesh National Museum
2019 – Art for the Soul, Workshop Assistant and Exhibiting Painter
2017 – On the Rocks Festival, Theatre performer, Mermaids St Andrews
2016 – Label: My Body, Spoken word performer and actor, St Andrews SU
2016 – Tagore’s Sacrfice, Theatre Producer, Barron Theatre St Andrews
2015 – When the World Screams, Production Designer, ISD Auditorium
PUBLICATIONS
NON-FICTION
Independent shorts by emerging filmmakers, Arts and Entertainment
The Daily Star
‘Us Women’ portrays the innate pleas of women, Arts & Entertainment
The Daily Star
LITERARY
Song of My Alone, Feature, Arts & Letters, Dhaka Tribune
Five poems, GOLDEN: Bangladesh at 50, University Press Limited
‘When in Dhaka,’ My City My Home, Sampad Arts
‘Colour of Madness’, Bishlipi: Bilingual Anthology, Monsoon Letters
Seven poems, The LAMP Anthology Dots Publications
‘White Funeral’, The Dan Hemingway Short Story Prize, Shortlisted, St Andrews English Department (judged by Writer-in-Residence Reif Larson)
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
NAOHA: Kaalo (2019)
NYC Indie Film Awards
National Short Film Festival
International Women’s Film Festival
Independent Shorts Awards
The European Independent Film Award
Top Indie Film Awards
Tri-Cities International Film Festival
Queen Palm International Film Festival
Detroit SheTown Women’s Film Festival
International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF)
NOMINEE
Motion Pictures International Film Festival
Madrid Film Awards (MADFA)
“Euro Fest” European International Film Festival
Indie Short Fest
London Breeze Film Festival
The Oaks International Film Festival
Two Box Film Fest
Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA)
Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival
IndieX Film Fest
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)
“Eurasia Fest” International Film Festival
WINNER
Crown Wood International Film Festival
New York Cinematography AWARDS (NYCA)
Cine Fern Film Festival
Falafel Sundays (2020)
Manchester Animation Festival (MAFter Dark: Out of Competition)
Marina del Rey Film Festival®
Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival
Austria International Film Festival
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
Madrid Film Awards (MADFA)
FilmOneFest (Films under 2 Minutes)
13th annual Arlington Int’l Film Festival
Women X Film Festival5th Vintage International Film Festival
NOMINEE
Kosice International Film Festival
New York Movie Awards
London International Motion Picture Awards – L.I.M.P.A
Independent Shorts Awards
Florence Film Awards
WINNER
World Film Carnival – Singapore
Changing Face International Film Festival
Druk International Film Festival
Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards
Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival
L’Age d’Or International Art-house Film Festival
Ekti Golpo (2021)
UN Women, Peace and Security Prize 2020 (Ishan Alavi, Director)
Tagore International Film Festival
Redwood Shorts & Scripts
Austria International Film Festival
DIRECTORS CUT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
New York Cinematography AWARDS (NYCA)
Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA)
Instructions (2017)
Los Angeles CineFest
Sunday Shorts Film Festival
Direct Monthly Online Film Festival
Roma Cinema DOC
A Wedding in Dhaka (2015)
Los Angeles CineFest