|  Tanvir Mokammel, film-maker and author of books studied English literature in Dhaka University and worked as a left-wing journalist and later as an activist to organize landless peasants in rural Bangladesh. Always a film enthusiast Mr. Tanvir Mokammel has made five full-length feature films and eleven documentaries. Some of his films have received national and international awards. His feature films are “The River Named Modhumoti” ,“Quiet Flows the River Chitra” ,“A Tree Without Roots”(LALSALU) ,“Lalon” and “The Sister”. Tanvir Mokammel’s prominent documentaries are; “The Unknown Bard”, “Teardrops of Karnaphuli”, “Riders to the Sunderbans”, “A Tale of the Jamuna River”, “The Garment Girls of Bangladesh”, “The Promised Land”, “Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero”and “Images and Impressions”.
A prolific writer, Tanvir Mokammel has written articles in newspapers, poems and short stories. Tanvir Mokammel’s important books are “A Brief History of World Cinema”, “The Art of Cinema”, “Charlie Chaplin: Conquests of the Vagabond”, “Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest of Tradition in Novel” (a literary criticism), “Grundtvig and Folk Education”, a book on the alternative educational ideas and translation of Maxim Gorky’s play “The Lower Depth”,. Mr. Mokammel is at present the director of “Bangladesh Film Institute” (BFI) and “Bangladesh Film Centre” (BFC). |