N Rashed Chowdhury

N Rashed Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi filmmaker, director, producer. He directed the feature film Chandrabati Kotha (The Tales of Chandrabati), which received a Government of Bangladesh National Filmmaking Grant and premiered at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival. He is a co-founder and director of Dhaka DocLab and served as director of the Bangladesh International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka.

Early life and education Chowdhury joined the Bangladesh Short Film Forum during high school in the early 1990s. He led the festival committee for its 15th edition in 2019. In 2017, he co-founded Dhaka DocLab, a South Asian documentary film market, where he works as a director and workshop mentor.

He served as executive producer for the 2014 film Meghmallar, directed by Zahidur Rahim Anjan.

His debut feature, Chandrabati Kotha (The Tales of Chandrabati), received a Government of Bangladesh National Grant for 2014–2015. It premiered at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in 2019 and was released in Bangladesh in 2021.

From October to December 2020, Chowdhury was a virtual resident at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.

Filmography

Feature films

Executive producer