Bijon Imtiaz
Production
Biography
Bijon is a writer, director, producer. His work includes internationally award-winning Bangladeshi feature films Kingdom of Clay Subjects, Live from Dhaka, and Afghan Short Roqaia. His works have featured in many international film festivals including Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Cinequest, Busan, Melbourne, Freiburg, Stockholm, etc. Currently, he is developing several narrative feature films both in India and Bangladesh including Paradise as a writer-director which was an official selection at Berlinale International Film Festival's co-production market. Bijon is an active documentary filmmaker along with his fiction works. Currently, he is in the production of a feature documentary, "Paradise, documentary". The film was part of the 44th Seattle International Film Festivals work in progress forum. Bijon's previous documentary "Beyond the Waves" won the Colors of Asia competition at Tokyo Docs and was featured at NHK world's Inside Lens documentary series. Bijon is the first Bangladeshi Film Production/Directing MFA- graduate from the prestigious Film, Television, and Theatre Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards for his filmmaking including the Motion Picture Association of America Awards, Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production fellowship, Dorothy Arzner Memorial Awards, and The Nancy Richardson Fund.
Known For

A married man's unexpected bodily reaction, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, plunges him into a midlife crisis, forcing him to confront his identity and desires.
A Thing about Kashem

10-year-old Jamal loves his carefree life with his mum in rural Bangladesh, until the day his childhood friend and playmate is forced to become a child bride. Isolated and lost, Jamal finds the world a harsh reality when his hopes of getting new friends and attending school collide with his mother's past.
Kingdom of Clay Subjects

Four teenagers, from a remote mountain village, spend their days in an abandoned bus on a ridge, playing music. When a band competition is organized in a neighbouring town, they gather money and courage to be part of it
The Silent Echo

Shahana's daughter Dipa asks her tailor to stitch deep pockets on her burkha. The young waiter at the tea stall worships the ground she walks on; the maid at home revels in her affection; the widowed college teacher's heart is in turmoil. Yet her family considers her a disgrace and a menace to society.
A House Named Shahana

In a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.
Live from Dhaka

Anu Bahar, a girl from a middle class family, has to use regular public transport. Almost every day she was being harassed on the street, in the car, on the sidewalk. When this daily harassment of the road goes beyond tolerance, one day Anu decides to buy a scooter. But there began another struggle.
Scooty

Biplav seethes with rage about the decadence around him and decides to stand still in front of the soon to unveiled monumental statue of a common man at the heart of the city. His act of defiance turns into a movement.
Eka

Montu Mridha’s wife and son live in a trance, often disappearing. Montu believes they are possessed, spending days searching for them and trying to cure them with holy apples.
An Apple Tree Inside the Head

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., swings from a ghost town to a protest epicenter. Sergei Kostin, a local activist moves between these extremes daily. His days are split between the roaring chaos of street demonstrations and the tender moments with his aging dog, Snoball. Against the backdrop of a divisive election that brings thousands to the heart of America's capital, Sergei faces a more intimate challenge - the painful preparation to say goodbye to his beloved dog.
Goodbye, Snoball

After surviving a suicide bomb attack, 12-year-old Roqaia finds herself in the middle of a media frenzy, as she deals with her trauma all by herself.
Roqaia

Layla is a silent monologue highlighted on a single woman's after work evening routine where loneliness came as a grand backdrop of metropolitan mechanical life.
Layla

A group of friends who are sick of being stuck in traffic and life create an app which brings a big change in everyone's life.