(Writer/Director/Producer) – Farhad
Hossain began his career in the visual medium in 2003, as an Assistant
Director and Associate Producer with a Kansas based Bangladeshi video
production company R&R V2000 Production. Since then, he has worked as
Screenwriter, Director, and Producer and in several productions oriented
activities including feature films, documentaries, music videos, television
series, television drama and commercials. Farhad has worked extensively in
the independent film industry in the United States as a Bangladeshi-American
film maker.
After his training in the Film Directing from the prestigious Chicago
Filmmakers, Farhad formed his own production entity Chicago Bioscope and
worked in collaboration with American mainstream casts and crews combined
with Bangladeshi major actors and directors such as Humayun Faridee,
Shahiduzzaman Selim and many others. One of Farhad's early scripts, "Till
the Last Day" written while he was in the Digital Movie Making program at
the Chicago Filmmakers and the part of the script was selected for school
project. He has been writing screenplays for all of the Chicago Bioscope’s
productions being made since its inception. The major productions those have
been produced are “Ekjon Ajmol Hossain-His Dream, His Nightmare”, “Abinashi
Shodorashi-Undying Series of Words”, “Mixed Culture” and “Dinner for Two”
are written, produced and co-directed by Farhad.
Farhad is dividing his time between his career as a Freelance Writter/Director
and as the Creative Head of Chicago Bioscope. In between Farhad also
acquired an MS in Information Systems and worked as an Application
Development Manager for several years, both at J.S Paluch Company and
Accenture. Farhad recently has written a screenplay based on Toronto based
novelist Salma Bani’s award winning novel ‘Nindito Uttoron, which has been
accepted by Canadian Film Office for funding.
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