Biography

Shahadat 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).

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.