Zakir Hossain Raju Explained

Zakir Hossain Raju
Occupation:Academic, Professor, Filmmaker
Alma Mater:Dhaka University, La Trobe University
Workplaces:Independent University, Bangladesh, King Sejong Institute, Transparency International Bangladesh, Ford Foundation, University of Malaya, NETPAC, Bangladesh Short Film Forum
Honorific Suffix:PhD
Native Name:জাকির হোসেন রাজু
Native Name Lang:Bengali
Birth Date:1970
Birth Place:Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Citizenship:Bangladesh, Australia
Known For:
  • Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity In Search of the Modern? (Book)[1]
  • Michiler Mukh (Documentary)[2]
Boards:Bangladesh Film Certification Board, Curriculum Advisory board of Wawasan Open University, Bangladesh Short Film Forum
Spouse:Nusrat Disha
Discipline:Asian film scholar

Zakir Hossain Raju (bn|জাকির হোসেন রাজু) is a Bangladeshi academic, film critic and filmmaker. He currently serves as a member of the Bangladesh Film Certification Board, Director of the King Sejong Institute, & Head of the Media and Communication department at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).[3] [4] [5] He also served as NETPAC jury chair for the Asian cinema category at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.[6] [7]

Early life and academic career

Raju was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mass Communication from the University of Dhaka. Later, he earned his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from La Trobe University in Australia.[8] Throughout his academic career, Raju has held various positions, including Research Fellow at Transparency International Bangladesh in 2005, Ford Foundation, ASIA Fellow at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, and Curriculum Advisor for Wawasan Open University in Malaysia from 2011 to 2012.[9] [10] [11] Currently, he teaches at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

Publications

Raju is recognized as an academic of Bangladeshi screen industries.[12] [13] His publications have appeared in respected journals and anthologies like South Asian Journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Arts Criticism (Chinese-language journal published by Beijing Art Academy), Cinemaya: Asian Film Journal, Bangladesh Film Archive Journal, Journal of Chinese Cinemas and TheJournal of Press Institute of Bangladesh.[14]

Books

In English

In Bengali

Articles

Filmography

Raju has been involved in the scripting, production, and direction of various short films and documentaries. His film Michiler Mukh (1991), a documentary on 1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh, after the recent Non-cooperation movement (2024) a group of like-minded young filmmakers, students organized an open screening of the film alongside My Bicycle, banned by the Censor Board of Bangladesh directed by Aung Rakhine.[24] In 1992, this film got selected in Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival.[25] Beyond the Borders (1995) a documentary on the Bengali diaspora, got selected in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.[26] Additionally, Raju and Piplu Khan as producers, are currently engaged in the development of a film project titled Summer in Shizuoka, Winter in Dhaka.[27]

!Year!Title!Director!Screenwriter!Producer!Notes
1991Face in the Millions (Michiler Mukh)YesYesYesDocumentary film portraying the 1990s popular upheaval against military autocracy in Bangladesh.[28]
1992Miles to GoYesYesYesDocumentary film on the perception of ordinary people about political process amid the 1991 elections under the first non-party caretaker government.
1993Tale of a WomanYesYesYesDocumentary film on how women are leading social transformation in rural Bangladesh.
1995Beyond the BordersYesYesYesDocumentary film on intercultural Bangladeshi-Japanese families in Japan and Bangladesh.
1996Images under the ShadowsYesYesYesDocumentary film on media and gender in Bangladesh.
1998Beijing Conference and Women in BangladeshYesYesYesDocumentary film on the impact of the 1995 Women's Conference in Beijing on women's movement in Bangladesh.
2023Summer in Shizuoka, Winter in DhakaYesYesYesThis Documentary film currently in Development.[29]

Involvement in film organizations and festivals

Raju serves as a board member of NETPAC along with Golam Rabbany Biplob from Bangladesh and was appointed as the NETPAC jury chair for the Asian cinema category at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.[30] [31] Raju currently serves as Vice President of the International Film Initiative of Bangladesh and is a former president of the Bangladesh Short Film Forum.[32] In addition, Raju has been invited as a jury president and member in various international film festivals, including the Hawaii International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.[33] [34] [35]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Raju . Zakir Hossain . Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern? . 17 December 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-317-60181-4 . 242 . 1st . 18 October 2024 . en.
  2. News: Aung Rakhine's banned Chakma film 'My Bicycle' premieres . 18 October 2024 . The Daily Star . 9 August 2024 . en.
  3. News: Board of King Sejong Institute, Dhaka. directory.iub.edu.bd . 18 October 2024. 23 September 2024 . en.
  4. News: Bangladesh Film Certification Board launched, censor abolished . 18 October 2024 . Prothomalo . 23 September 2024 . en.
  5. News: IUB launches Window on Korea and King Sejong Institute . The Daily Star . 9 August 2023 . en . 29 October 2022.
  6. Web site: Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema Netpac Members . Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema . 28 August 2023 . en-uk.
  7. Web site: Dr Zakir Hossain Raju . School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences . 9 August 2023.
  8. Web site: Zakir Hossain Raju . Festival des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul . 9 August 2023.
  9. Web site: BULLETIN BOARD . The Daily Star . 29 August 2023 . en . 19 March 2020.
  10. Web site: Taking a look at Bangladesh cinema down the years . The Daily Star . 29 August 2023 . en . 16 February 2015.
  11. News: Zakir Hossain Raju represents SA . 23 October 2023 . bangladeshpost.net . en.
  12. News: Press Release . Prof Dr Zakir Hossain Raju appointed to Bangladesh Film Certification Board . 18 October 2024 . Dhaka Tribune . Kazi Anis Ahmed . 25 Sep 2024.
  13. Book: Raju . Zakir Hossain . Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) . Duke University Press . 20 September 2023 . en . 2012. 10.1215/1089201X-1891606 . 144789365 . }
  14. Raju . Z. H. . Significance of News Elements . The Journal of Press Institute of Bangladesh, PIB . 1996 . 74 . 36-37.
  15. Web site: Raju . Zakir Hossain . National Cinema, Cultural Identity and Public Sphere: Rewriting Bangladesh Film History . La Trobe University . 20 September 2023 . en . 2004.
  16. Book: Raju . Zakir Hossain . Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern? . 17 December 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-317-60181-4 . 18 October 2024 . en.
  17. Web site: গণমাধ্যমে মুক্তিযুদ্ধ (হার্ডকভার) by জাকির হোসেন রাজু . rokomari.com . 18 October 2024. bn.
  18. Web site: চলচ্চিত্রের চালচিত্র . www.prothoma.com . 18 October 2024 . bn.
  19. Raju . Zakir Hossain . 1 December 2012 . Indigenization of Cinema in (Post)Colonial South Asia: From Transnational to Vernacular Public Spheres . Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . 32 . 3 . 611–621 . 10.1215/1089201X-1891606 . 144789365.
  20. Book: Khondker . Habibul . Muurlink . Olav . Ali . Asif Bin . 18 March 2022 . The Emergence of Bangladesh . Palgrave Macmillan . 978-981-16-5520-3 . xix.
  21. Raju . Zakir Hossain . 1 December 2012 . Indigenization of Cinema in (Post)Colonial South Asia . Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . 32 . 3 . 611–621 . 10.1215/1089201X-1891606.
  22. Book: Raju, Zakir Hossain . 2017 . Identity and Sovereignty in Asian Art Cinema . Palgrave Macmillan US . 217–238 . 10.1057/978-1-349-95016-4_9 . 978-1-349-95015-7.
  23. Book: Raju, Zakir Hossain . 2011 . Multiple Islams, multiple modernities, Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia . Weintraub . Andrew N. . Routledge . 10.4324/9780203829004 . 9780203829004 . 142722115.
  24. News: Aung Rakhine's banned Chakma film 'My Bicycle' premieres . 18 October 2024 . The Daily Star . 9 August 2024 . en.
  25. Web site: 1992 (2nd) アジアフォーカス・福岡国際映画祭 アーカイブ : Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka ARCHIVE . www.focus-on-asia.com . 23 October 2023.
  26. Web site: YIDFF: Past Festivals: '95: Screening List . www.yidff.jp . 18 October 2024.
  27. Web site: Zakir Hossain Raju . MUBI . 19 September 2023 . en.
  28. Web site: 1992 (2nd) アジアフォーカス・福岡国際映画祭 アーカイブ : Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka ARCHIVE . www.focus-on-asia.com . 23 October 2023.
  29. Web site: Developing Category – Dhaka DocLab . dhakadoclab.org/ . 21 August 2023.
  30. Web site: Zakir Hossain joins Venice Film Fest as a jury chair . New Age The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh . 31 October 2023 . en.
  31. News: Bangladeshi film scholar Raju hands award to Japanese filmmaker in Venice . 23 October 2023 . The Daily Star . 10 September 2023 . en.
  32. Web site: art & culture . 18 October 2023 . 17 January 2006 . 17 January 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060117044409/http://www.weeklyholiday.net/130603/cul.html . bot: unknown .
  33. News: Kamal . Md Ashequl Morsalin Ibne . Saha . Niloy . Hossain . Jobayer . Farooki, Raju becomes Jury members at 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) . 14 October 2023 . Dhaka Courier . en.
  34. Web site: Zakir Hossain Raju named Netpac jury for Asian Cinema at Venice Film Festival . The Daily Star . 28 August 2023 . en . 28 August 2023.
  35. Web site: Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema Netpac Members . Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema . 28 August 2023 . en-uk.

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