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Sanjana Rahman

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I Found You (2014) Duration: 10 mins

Concept and Direction

The story is based on the urge of a guy to find out the girl who often comes to

his dreams. One fine afternoon he notices the

shadow of the girl and he finds out that the

girl is all he is thinking all day-night.

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…Eversince he came across the shadow, the

girl started appearing in his dreams with and

leaves the indications that she is just around

and eagerly waiting to be found.

The story ends when the guy really

finds him and we find him leaving the

frame without even looking at girl

and with the smile of content on his

face that he really found him.

Mystery yet lays in the story to how

does it really matters if he finds someone and not even bothered to keep her with

him.

From Director’s point of view, it was my self-experiment to know how well it’s

possible to express with visuals without

even narrating the story. The bigger

struggle was to leave the ending of the

film on audience to decide whether it

served the purpose of making or not.

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Sleeping Alives (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbep60craNQ

Duration: 03:36 mins

Director, Writer, Editor

Three randomly different plots tell the whole

story in this film. The first shows some

nonsense activities of two vagabonds trying to

follow one another and that on simply tying

their shoe laces. With the silent comedy they

show how we can adore the similarities

between us than to possess vanity over that.

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Second story shows two lady with

opposite complexions wearing two

different colours representing the

opposites and ups and downs of our

lives. The way they were enjoying their

togetherness it depicts that differences

are meant to be respected not to be

hating around! Differences merely fight

each other. What they do is complement

one another in any point when they have

to move parallel.

The third story ends with an enigma when we see

some people playing chess. Director’s aim was to

establish story with visuals which hopefully reflected

some self realisations she possessed. Yet the main

vision was to promote the beauty of nature.

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These Regular Us (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAToeCcKaM

Director, Writer, Editor

The story starts with a girl using social media when suddenly some friends she

doesn’t like knocks her and from expression we

can see that she isn’t really happy to get the

text. Yet with texts she expresses that she

enjoys his company.

In the whole

story we try to

find out about

some murder.

And in between

we see how people behind the screen became so used to writing anything

without even meaning anything. Internet is bliss or a curse? Whom to decide?

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The song of the green hills (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiaCD94oL4g

Assistant Director, Research and Script

The Chittagong Hill

Tracts, in the south east of Bangladesh is defined by its own topography and

unique history. The region has been home to different ethnic communities who

differ from the Bengalis living in the plains. For centuries, these ethnic

communities have managed to maintain their culture. This documentary features

the women of Lama and Alikadam sub-districts of Bandarban.

This documentary has been developed in the

framework of the partnership between

AIDA, TARANGO, ULAB's Center for

Sustainable Development (CSD) and ULAB's

Media Studies and Journalism Dept., as part

of the "Strengthening Ethnic Women Rights

(SEWR)" project.

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Dacca to Dhaka (2012)

http://vimeo.com/51087925

Assistant Director, Script and Concept

Dhaka – some say the city of mosque, some say the rickshaw capital. With the

400 years of glory, once it was named ‘Jahangir Nagar’. Later it was transformed

into Dhaka.

Some believe that, the name

Dhaka came after the name of

Dhakeswari temple, some came up

with different stories. But whatever it

is, we have our city Dhaka; our

historical city – Dhaka.

Time went by and the area of

the city kept on growing on that

ration. One day it got the honour of

becoming a capital.

We aimed at taking our audience at a

quick tour of Dhaka city. A quick tour

from past to present. A quick tour

from –

“Dacca to Dhaka”

…The city grows up with us too

We never cared to know its story..!

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