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Born 1979 in Lahore, Pakistan

education

Postgraduate Studies, Art Practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K. 2008

BFA Film Production, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2004

films

Lumiere Du Jour, 5 min, 16mm/video, 2006

Death in the Garden of Paradise, 21 min, 16mm/video, 2005

Flight, 10 min, 16mm/video, 2003,

selected group exhibitions:

2008

Goldsmiths MFA degree show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

"The Lovers Were Ambassadors to Imaginary Utopias/Between White Walls," Commune Artists

Colony, Karachi, Pakistan.

2006

"Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan," Asia House, London, UK

screenings

2007

Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes, France,

Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

2006

Poetry + Projections, Drake Underground, Toronto, Canada

Kassel Documentary and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany

Bollywood Prague Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Commonwealth International Film Festival, Manchester, U.K.

Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto

It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Palo, Brazil

Monitor 2: A Programme of South Asian Film and Video, Toronto

Third I New York, Urban Hum of Pakistan, New York, USA

Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai, India

2005

Dhaka International Short and Independent Film Festival

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Festival of New Cinema New Media, Montreal

Tasveer Seattle Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle

EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul, Korea

Filmi Independent South Asian Film Festival, Toronto

Unfinished, A Program of Short Film and Video, Chicago

San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto

OAC: Mobile Media Film and Video Tour

Monitor: Contemporary South Asian Film and Video at Camera, Toronto

2004

Karafilm, Karachi International Film Festival, Karachi, Pakistan

Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto

Mateela Film Festival, Lahore, Pakistan

Art Gallery of Mississauga

Montreal World Film Festival

Concordia University Year end Screening

awards and grants

Canada Council For the Arts, Travel Grant 2007

Marian McMahon Award, Images Festival 2006

Canada Council For the Arts, Travel Grant 2005

Canada Council for the Arts, Emerging Artists in Film and Video Grant 2004

Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Media Arts Grant 2004

Toronto Arts Council, Media Arts Grant 2004

Best Documentary, Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival 2003

Czerny Award for Best Documentary, Concordia University 2003

honors/nominations

Featured as an artist in Open Portfolios, Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, 2009

Nominated for Silver Wolf Award, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam,

2005

Nominated for Golden Gate Award (New Visions category), San Francisco International Film Festival,

2005

Listed as one of the Top Ten film artists in Toronto in Cameron Bailey’s list, NOW Magazine, Best of

2004 issue

Listed in Maclean’s Magazine as one of 25 notable undergraduates of the year, 2004