Bijon is a writer, director, producer. His work includes internationally award-winning Bangladeshi feature films Kingdom of Clay Subjects, Live from Dhaka, and Afghan Short Roqaia. His works have featured in many international film festivals including Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Cinequest, Busan, Melbourne, Freiburg, Stockholm, etc. Currently, he is developing several narrative feature films both in India and Bangladesh including Paradise as a writer-director which was an official selection at Berlinale International Film Festival's co-production market. Bijon is an active documentary filmmaker along with his fiction works. Currently, he is in the production of a feature documentary, "Paradise, documentary". The film was part of the 44th Seattle International Film Festivals work in progress forum. Bijon's previous documentary "Beyond the Waves" won the Colors of Asia competition at Tokyo Docs and was featured at NHK world's Inside Lens documentary series. Bijon is the first Bangladeshi Film Production/Directing MFA- graduate from the prestigious Film, Television, and Theatre Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards for his filmmaking including the Motion Picture Association of America Awards, Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production fellowship, Dorothy Arzner Memorial Awards, and The Nancy Richardson Fund.
