1. Anwar Jamal was born on 15 August 1961 and is an Indian documentary filmmaker, based in New Delhi.
18 Facts About Anwar Jamal
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Anwar Jamal has been awarded the National Film Award on several occasions and had made critically acclaimed feature, short and documentary films a wide array of social, political and cultural themes.
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Anwar Jamal has served as jury in many international film festivals including National Film Award Jury.
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Anwar Jamal came to Delhi to pursue his interests in arts, literature, theatre, and later cinema.
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Anwar Jamal joined the AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, on the invitation of its founder Chairperson, the late AJ Kidwai, and came close to the world-renowned documentary filmmaker James Beveridge.
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Anwar Jamal has won two more National Awards for co-producing documentaries on the issue of land rights, directed by Sehjo Singh.
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Anwar Jamal directed Zinda Itihaas, a serial on living cultural legends like BC Sanyal, Zohra Sehgal and Fida Husain Narsi for Doordarshan.
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Anwar Jamal worked as the India director for Orcades, a series of socio-political stories on French Television in 1989.
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Anwar Jamal has worked with ARD South Asia wing of German Television on Indian news stories.
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Anwar Jamal served as a National Film Awards Jury member in 2004 and as an International Jury member for competition films in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia in December 2004.
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Anwar Jamal co-edited a bilingual compilation of essays, Hollywood Bollywood: The Politics of Crossover Films, published by Vani Prakashan.
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Anwar Jamal's served as Executive Producer of Sikandar, a Hindi feature film produced by the Big Pictures.
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Anwar Jamal followed that up in 2009 with Harvest of Grief, an investigative film about of the.
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Anwar Jamal's work has been screened in more than 200 film festivals around the world.
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Anwar Jamal is a member of the English books selection committee of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation Kolkata.
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Anwar Jamal's leadership is evident as the Chairman of the Kolkata International Film Festival for documentaries.
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Anwar Jamal is serving as a consultant for film production for the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society.
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Anwar Jamal has served as the guest editor for the Shyam Benegal special issue of Hans.