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Rashed Chowdhury

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DOB : 01-01-1974
Age : 50
Star Sign : Capricorn
Gender : Male

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Rashed Chowdhury or N. Rashed Chowdhury was born on 1 January 1974 in Rangpur, Bangladesh and resides in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His nickname is Rashed. He has been an active Independent filmmaker and activist in Bangladesh since 1989. He became involved with the Bangladesh Short Film Forum, a pioneer organization of the independent film movement in Bangladesh since high school in the early 30s. He got married to Tanya Chowdhury on 29 January 1999. His children's names are Amreeta Lethe Chowdhury and Aranya R Chowdhury. He went to study at Dhanmondi Government Boys High School. He studied Business Administration at Pune University from 1995-97.

He worked as a Creative Director at Bengal Creations from August 2013 to September 2018. He was an Independent Filmmaker at Mangrove Pictures in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was the President and the Executive Committee Member of the Bangladesh Short Film Forum. He has been an Additional Faculty at Jagannath University since June 2018 and an Assistant Professor at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, a part of Dhaka University in the film and Television department, since November 2022.

He was the Festival Director twice of the International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka- the pioneer International Independent Film Festival organized every two years by the Bangladesh Short Film Forum since 1988. He is known for his work as a Producer, Writer and Director of the feature film Chandrabati Kotha (also known as The Tales of Chandrabati). This film won the National Film Grant for feature film in 2014-15 by the Bangladesh government. He was the Executive Producer of Meghmallar (2014) and a Post-production Consultant for Alpha (2019).

Some of his other famous works include Nahannyate (The Long Wait), a documentary on a self-exiled pioneer Bangladeshi female sculptor- Novera Ahmed, which attended the MIFF, IFFI, and JDCA film festivals of India, the short fiction film Bismwaraner Nadi (The River Lethe), which was the official selection for the Commonwealth International Festival in Manchester (UK), MIFF, IFFI (India), and ISIFF (Dhaka), Interpreter of the Marginalized, a documentary film on Painter Shahid Kabir, Ami Shudhu Ekti Khun Korte Cheyechilam, which won in the Best Musical Score category at the 2010 Charuniram Award for TV Fiction and received a nomination for Best Director and Scriptwriter at the 2010 Meril Prothom Alo Award, and TV-show Khancha which received a nomination in the Best TV Fiction category at the Charuniram Award 2012 for TV Fiction.