Education

2012- 2015   MFA Media Art & Design, Bauhaus-Universität                                                      Weimar,Germany

Film Production, Illustration

2005-2008   BFA Design, Indus Valley school of Arts, Karachi, Pakistan

Film Production, Design

2000-2004   O-levels,  A-levels, The City School, Karachi, Pakistan

Work

2019-            Video Edior at “Zum Goldenen Hirschen GmbH”

2019             Video Edior at “TVN Production GmbH”

2018-2019   Video Edior at “La Paloma TV GmbH”; TV show ‘Krass Schule

2016-2018   Video Edior at “Mediakraft GmbH”

2016             Video Edior at “Label Lohse GmbH” for RTL2

2012             Assistant Producer at “The Express Tribune”

2010-2011   Illustrator at “Salsoft Technology”

2010            Assistant Director at “Mehroz Karim Films” and “Hum TV”

2009-2012  Assistant Director at various freelance Film projects

2009           Assistant Producer at “Eckova Productions”

Academic Work

2009-2012   Taught at “Szabist Universität”, Karachi, Pakistan:

Seminar for “Contemporary Cinema”
Seminar for “TV-Internet-Project”
Taught Semester course “History and Aesthetics of Cinema”
Taught Semester course “Audio/ Visual Editing Theory”

Internship

2014   “Jenabild” as Assistant Director, Editor, Storyboard artist (Jena,                        Deutschland)

2008   “Dawn News TV” as Assistant Director, Director and Editor (Pakistan)

Film Portfolio

Films

2015   The Tale of the Two Moons (Master Thesis Film)
            Backup Film Festival 2015, Weimar
            Medienpreis 2015, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2013   The Encounter
2012   An Unusual Friend Request
           Distributed by Why Poverty.net and STEPS
2011   Dhood-Pati (Dhood-pati)
           Portobello Film Festival 2011, London
           Berlinale Talent Campus 2011, Berlin
           Mini-Input 2012 Goethe Institut Karachi
           Ghandhara Film Fest 2012, Karachi
2009  Escape
           London International Documentry Festival 2009
2008  The Critic (Tanqeed Nighar)

Qualifications

Film: Direction, Writer, Illustration, Cinematography, Editing
Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 (Participant from Pakistan)
Bauhaus Thesis Scholarship 2015

Languages

Urdu (Fluent)
English (Fluent)
German (Very Good)

Other References

“Top 10 Young Writers from Pakistan” (Oxford University Press)
Short Story “Meditations of a Hari” published by Oxford University Press
Worked as freelance Illustrator