Sadik Ahmed ( bn, সাদিক আহমেদ; born 29 March 1977) is a Bangladeshi-born British film director and

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Early life

Ahmed was born in

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, came to England as a child and was brought up in Stamford Hill, London. Ahmed studied Painting and Photography at London College of Printing Central St Martins School of Art, before going to the

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to study MA in Cinematography and graduated in 2006.

Career

As his graduation film Ahmed made ''

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'', a National Lottery-funded

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which won Best Factual Film at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2007, Best Cinematography at the Kodak Student Commercial Awards 2006. as well as being runner-up in the best newcomer category at the

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2006, TCM classic shorts,

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award, amongst others. The film appeared at the

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and

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. In 2007, Ahmed later directed a western called '' The Last Thakur''. It was a

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co-production with

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as the distributor. The film was received well by critics and '' Sight & Sound'' magazine named ''The Last Thakur'' "one of the most confident British debut features since Asif Kapadia's ''

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'' (2001)… with which it shares an Asian location and language and a welcome belief in the primacy of visual storytelling." The film premiered at the

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and was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and others and finally had its theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2009. In January 2010, Ahmed was nominated for a Cinematography Fellowship Award by

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. He has since then signed into his second feature film, ''The King of Mirpur'', which is an urban cop thriller set in the modern subcontinent.

Filmography

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Early life

Career

Filmography

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