Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Request QuoteShahadat Hossain is an emerging filmmaker from Bangladesh. He has over 15 years of experience in Film production and Photography. His feature doc “Tales off Banishanta” is one of those unique and untold stories from one of the licensed brothel of Bangladesh. He began his career as a Photographer in an English Daily in Bangladesh and then he went to work with Acclaimed European filmmaker Michael Glowgger. He is the Cinematographer for BBC Our Worlds doc ‘The cost of apparel industry’. He is the Director of Photography for the feature doc ‘Rising Silence’ ‘In Search of Bengali Harlem, ‘Untying the Knot’ and “Bangla Surf girls’ and Cinematographer for the fiction film ‘Sarhaad’ shoot in India.. Shahadat has worked as Producer and cinematographer for Warner Bros Hongkong, Swedish Tv, CBC, Discovery Channel (USA) , Komola Collective (UK), UNICEF Global and Bangladesh, VG network Norway, He also Worked as a consultant filmmaker for Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He has worked as a cinematographer in Six feature films and many short films and commercials. Shahadat is a passionate Photographer who has Two Solo Exhibition in Uk 2017. He has numerous group exhibition in UK, USA, Japan, Turkey, Italy and Beyond. Shhahdat has MA in English Literature and completed one year PGD in Cinematography from Asian Academy of Film and Television, India.
In December 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after a nine-month war with West Pakistan. During the Liberation War, the Pakistani army adopted the rape and torture of Bangladeshi women as a military tactic across the country and in camps built throughout Bangladesh. Over nine months of conflict.
On Banishanta Island, between Sunderbans and Mongla port close to the Bay of Bengal, live about 150 people, mostly girls and women, all dependent on the sex trade. This, their only home, is doomed – slowly dying as waters rise, sea trade declines, and all life is threatened. Yet humanity thrives, hope persists.
It is about the apparel industry of Bangladesh during the Covid-19 situation
Its a community old home video
Banishanta is a tiny island in Bangladesh, constantly under the threat of the rising waters - consists of 150 women and girls who live and work as sex-workers inside a state-licensed brothel. This exhibition explores their stories by the award winning photographer Shahadat Hossain. "When I reached the Banishantaghat - locally referred as the ‘Banishanta Para (brothel)’, it felt like I had left the city and entered a different world altogether - the world of the condemned. Many of the enslav
Different border is a feature length documentary film following the group of hijras in four cities of Bangladesh and India. The intention of the film is to create a bridge between the common people and the hijra's; and to break the barriers of myths and misconceptions existing about hijras.
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