Cinematic Arts
Film Title: A Tale of Night Flowers (Amazon Prime Video)
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2014
Duration: 127 minutes
Role: Writer, Director, and Producer
Theme: A sex worker’s struggle in Bangladesh
Film: Arshinagar (Reflection)
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2022
Duration: 54 minutes
Role: Writer, Director, and Producer
Theme: A transcultural adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot infused with Fakir Lalon Shah’s philosophy on spiritualism
Title: UNDP SWAPNO Beneficiary Selection Process
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Project Description: Filmed in Kurigram, this project demonstrates the beneficiary selection process of Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO), United Nations Development Program, Bangladesh
Title: UNDP Nutrition Campaign Through Cooking Demonstrations
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Project Description: Filmed in Kurigram, this project aims at Nutrition For All by demonstrating the hygienic cooking process for Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO), United Nations Development Program, Bangladesh
Title: Folk Drama on Health, Hygiene, and Food Security (Documentary Film)
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Project Description: Filmed in Kurigram, this project aims at achieving SDG Goals for National Nutrition Policy for Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO), UNDP
Title: Rong Bodley Rongin Kori Campaign for Berger Bangladesh Ltd.
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Project Description: AV Documentary for Branding
Title: Dhaka International Poet Summit 2019
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Project Description: A Project of Kathak, aimed at a literary discussion with international poets
Title: Economic Development in Bangladesh: Achievements and Potentialities
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2018
Role: Production Designer, Editor & Director
Project Description: A discussion event by Notre Dame University Bangladesh on the economic development of Bangladesh till 2018
Title: The Facebook (A Project of Youth Peace Film 2018)
Genre: A Docu-fiction for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Films4Peace Foundation
Year: 2018
Role: Production Supervisor, Creative Director, Screenwriter
Project Description:
This project aims at promoting peace through films that mainly portray the impact of social media rumors with fake news on society
Title: Notre Dame University Documentary Film
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2018
Role: Production Supervisor, Creative Director, Screenwriter
Project Description: A series of 7 documentaries in a month made in 2018 promoting the academic and co-curricular activities of the university and Christian missionary voluntary contribution to the academia
Title: Apolitical Intellectuals
Genre: Visual Poetry
Year: 2019
Role: Direction & Screenwriting
Project Description: Filmed in Kurigram, a recital visual art on the voices of the marginalized in society as a Bangla transcultural adaptation of Otto Rene Castilo’s poem by Prof. Dr. Azfar Hussain, Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA for Ars Poetica
Title: Love in Siesta Book Teaser (Oxford Books, India)
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2019
Role: Direction & Screenwriting
Project Description: Avik Gangapadhyay’s ‘Love in Siesta’ is a collection of fiction visually adapted by Ars Poetica and Oxford Books, India.
Title: The End (Peace Film Festival 2019, Bangladesh)
Genre: Fiction
Theme: On religious intolerance in Bangladesh
Year: 2019
Role: Production Supervisor, Creative Director, Screenwriting
Project Description: This project aimed at promoting peace through films where religious fundamentalism was addressed in this visual production for Manusher Jonno Foundation and Films4Peace Foundation
Link: Short Film
Title: Dhaka Shuts
Genre: Visual Poetry
Theme: Gender-based Violence
Year: 2018
Role: Direction & Screenwriting
Project Description: Gender-based Violence Project screened at EMK Center and a project of WIL (Women in Leadership) & Ars Poetica
Title: Ketor
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Environmental Awareness
Year: 2018
Role: Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriting
Project Description: This project got nominated in several environmental film festivals like Eco-spree in 2019, and Nizoder Environmental Vanguard Award 2019
Title: Freedom of Silence
Genre: Fiction
Theme: A socio-political criticism of banning freedom of expression in Bangladesh
Year: 2017
Role: Director, Producer, Writer
Project Description: This project received seven awards in Swadesh Short Film Festival 2018, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing Award.
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Title: No More Tales
Genre: Fiction
Theme: A socio-political criticism of banning freedom of expression in Bangladesh
Year: 2016
Role: Director, Producer, Writer
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Title: Borahobhumi (Pigland)
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Gender-based Violence
Year: 2016
Role: Director, Producer, Writer
Project Description:
To address Gender-based Violence, this project aims at the critical social taboos
Title: Andore Alo (Light Inside)
Genre: Fiction
Direction: Wahid Anam
Television Production: SATV
Year: 2014
Role: Scriptwriter
Title: Bodhon (Consciousness)
Genre: Fiction
Direction: Mohammad Zakir Hossain Jewel
Theme: A project of UNICEF based on women and child abuse
Television Production: Bangladesh Television (BTV)
Year: November 2015
Role: Scriptwriter
Title: Cheyechho Jokhon (As You Wanted)
Genre: Fiction
Direction: Farhad Ahmed
Role: Scriptwriter
Television: Ekushey Television
Year: 2016
Role: Scriptwriter
Title: Rhythm of Life
Genre: Fiction, a 6-episode series
Direction: Farhad Ahmed
Television Production: Maasranga Television
Year: 2016
Role: Scriptwriter
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Title: ATN Bangla Shera Randhanshilpi 2016 (ATB Bangla Best Culinary Artiste 2016)
Genre: Reality Show
Director: Abdullah Rana
Year: 2016
Role: Scriptwriter
Title: The Sound of Silence (Shunner Abritti)
Genre: A 3-episode Musical Fiction (60 minutes)
Television Production: Channel-i
Year: March 12-14, 2013
Role: Producer, Writer, and Scriptwriter
Title: Pracheer (The Wall)
Director: Mehedi Hasan Tiku
Theme: The History of Independence of Bangladesh
Genre: Fiction
Television Production: AATN Bangla
Year: 2011
Role: Producer
Title: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Genre: Photoplay
Client: Notre Dame University Bangladesh Drama Club
Year: 2018
Role: Creative Director
Title: OVC for DOSEN Electronics
Genre: Commercial Advertisement
Year: 2020
Role: Creative Director, Writer
Title: Notre Dame University Bangladesh English Department Promo
Genre: Documentary Film
Year: 2019
Role: Writer and Director
Title: TVC for Bangladesh Post, a national daily
Genre: Commercial Advertisement
Year: 2018
Role: Writer and Director
Title: St. Joseph Higher Secondary School Basketball Event Promo
Genre: Event Commercial
Year: 2014
Role: Production Designer, Screenwriter and Director
Title: Foreign Language Week 2022, Notre Dame, USA
Genre: Event Documentation
Year: 2022
Role: Creative Director, Video Editor, Cinematographer
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Info-graphic 2D Animation
Title: Hygienic Sanitation: A Necessity, Not Luxury
Year: 2021
Project Description: A 3min docu-fiction film to develop an awareness of Health and Sanitation for the WASH SDG WAI PROGRAM
Client Name: Simavi, Netherlands and Uttaran
Title: Shaiya Inheritance Law: Women’s Rights
Year: 2021
Project Description: “Asserting Marginalized Access to Rights (AMAR)” Project focus on the social rights of the marginalized. This project aimed at demonstrating Women’s Inheritance Property Law.
Client Name: European Union (EU) & Uttaran Bangladesh
Title: Allocation and Timeline for Start Network (Start Fund Bangladesh)
Year: 2021
Project Description: From 2017 till 2021, several allocations and alerts have been animated in a 2D infographic manner (3mins+)
Client Name: StartFund Bangladesh (iNGO)
Link: Start Fund Bangladesh
Title: Social Awareness for GBV
Year: 2020-2021
Project Description: 2D Animation Explainer Video (3 mins+)
Client Name: World Poetic Front for Defending Women’s Rights (WM) (an iNGO based in Puerto Rico)
Link: Social Awareness for GBV
Title: Social Awareness for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Year: 2020
Project Description: 2D Animation Explainer Video (3 mins+)
Client Name: Blank Voices
Title: Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LOGIC) Introduction
Year: 2020
Project Description: 2D Animation Explainer Video (8 mins+)
Client Name: LOGIC Project, UNDP, Bangladesh (iNGO)
Link: UNDP LOGIC Project
Title: Infographic AV for Banglar Kebab
Year: 2021
Project Description: Audio-visual infographic motion for branding (3mins+)
Title: Promotional Teaser for University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Year: 2020
Client Name: Center for Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Title: The Ladyland, Animation for Blank Voices
Year: 2021
Project Description: It’s a ‘gen-z’ cultural adaptation of Begum Rokeya’s ‘Sultana’s Dream.’
Title: Notre Dame University Bangladesh Language Center Promotional
Year: 2018
Role: Creative Director
Stage Productions
Title: Self-Willed Exile
1st Performance: Feb 23, 2018
Genre: Performance Poetry and Mixed Media Arts
Performers: Shahrear Rafi, Rose Adriana, Turibuse Dipto
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Funded by NDUB English Club
Adapted from Aminur Rahman’s Poetry
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
2nd performance: January 16, 2019
Performed by Shahrear Rafi, Sadia Hashim, Arnab Bhattyacharjee
Location: The Junction, 6th Floor, House 66, Block C, Road 8, Niketon, Gulshan
Organized by Jatrik, The Junction, and Art Hut
Adapted from Aminur Rahman’s Poetry
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: If You Forget Me
Date: Oct 3, 2017
Genre: Performance Poetry and Mixed Media Arts
Performed by Jarin Tasnim, Issack Halder
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Organized by NDUB English Club
Adapted from Pablo Neruda’s poem
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
Date: Sep 29, 2017
Genre: Performance Poetry and Mixed Media Arts
Performed by Shahrear Amin, Rafi Arnob Pial, Md. Saifuddin Al Quaderi
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Adapted from Pablo Neruda’s poem
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Kothopokothon (Translation: tête-à-tête)
Date: Sep 25, 2017
Genre: Performance Poetry and Mixed Media Arts
Performed by Manha and Idaf
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Organized by NDUB English Club
Adapted from Purnendu Putri’s poetry
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Potro Dio (Write to Me)
Date: Sep 17, 2017
Genre: Performance Poetry and Mixed Media Arts
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Organized by NDUB English Club
Adapted from Mahadev Saha’s poetry
Scripted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Pleasant Illusion
Genre: Avant-garde Theater
Performed by Sadik Haque, Jannat E Nur, Md. Saifuddin Al Quaderi, Rasel Ahmod, and many more
Location: Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Organized by NDUB English Club
Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Date: Sep 17, 2017
Title: Still I Rise
1st Performance: November 26, 2018
2nd Performance: January 16, 2019
Genre: Narrative Dance Drama with Mixed Media Arts
Performed by Priyana Virginia Gomes, Elizabeth Eti Marandy, Rose Marian Rozario, Md. Saifuddin Al Quaderi, Arnab Bhattyacharjee, Rashedul Islam
Location of the 1st performance: EMK Center, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Location of the 2nd performance: The Junction, 6th Floor, House 66, Block C, Road 8, Niketon, Gulshan, Dhaka
Organized by Jatrik, The Junction, and Art Hut
Adapted from the poem by Maya Angelou
Adapted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Joyer Opekkhay
Date: January 16, 2019
Genre: Absurd Theater
Performed by Md Saifuddin Al Quaderi, Aditya Shankar, Rashedul Islam, Elizabeth Eti Marandy, Khaled Redwan Rafsan, Arnab Bhattyacharjee, Rahin (Saxophone) and Jishnu (Guitar)
Location: The Junction, 6th Floor, House 66, Block C, Road 8, Niketon, Gulshan, Dhaka
Organized by Jatrik, The Junction, and Art Hut
Adapted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Apolitical Intellectuals
Date: January 16, 2019
Genre: Poetry Performance with Mixed Media Arts
Performed by Shoikot Siddique, Tamjid Mia, Sourav Ahmed, Khaled Redwan Rafsan, Fahim Ali, Aditya Shankar, Md Saifuddin Al Quaderi, Rashedul Islam
Location: The Junction, 6th Floor, House 66, Block C, Road 8, Niketon, Gulshan, Dhaka
Organized by Jatrik, The Junction, and Art Hut
Adapted from the poem by Otto Rene Castillo, translated into Bangla by Prof. Dr. Azfar Hussain
Adapted and Directed by Ahmed Tahsin Shams
Link
Title: Toktokey Laal Ami Kothay Pai
Role: Lyricist, Recital Artist, and Creative Advisor
Year: 2021