Bassam Tariq was born on October 22,1986 and is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter born in Karachi, Pakistan.
14 Facts About Bassam Tariq
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Bassam Tariq co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary These Birds Walk with Omar Mullick, and he was named in Filmmakers "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012.
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Bassam Tariq was born in Pakistan and moved to the US with his family at a young age.
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Bassam Tariq grew up in New York's Astoria neighborhood and moved to Houston at age 11.
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Bassam Tariq received a Bachelor of Science in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008.
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Bassam Tariq free-lanced and filmed promotional videos for Celestica, The University of Texas at Austin, and CBS News 11.
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Bassam Tariq started filmmaking in college to earn extra money while getting his degree.
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Bassam Tariq has produced feature video stories for Time, a short film for The New Yorker, and co-directed a PSA to encourage vaccination against polio in Pakistan.
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Bassam Tariq worked as copywriter at other agencies, including RAPP and BBDO NY.
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In 2013, Bassam Tariq co-directed These Birds Walk with Omar Mullick.
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When Bassam Tariq moved back to New York, he read about a humanitarian in Pakistan named Abdul Sattar Edhi, who started the first ambulance system in Pakistan in the 1950s and founded the Edhi Foundation.
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In 2014, Bassam Tariq co-founded a halal butcher shop in the East Village in New York with Khalid Latif and Russell Khan.
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Bassam Tariq is a freelance copywriter and creative director in New York City.
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However, on September 28,2022, Bassam Tariq stepped down as director due to further delays in the production schedule.