Tareque Masud est un Réalisateur, Scénariste et Producteur Bangladais né le 6 décembre 1956 à Bhanga Upazila (Bangladesh)
Tareque Masud
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Tareque Masud est un réalisateur bangladais né en 1957, et mort accidentellement le 13 août 2011.
Il est connu pour avoir réalisé les films Muktir Gaan (1995) et Matir Moina (2002), pour lequel il a remporté de nombreux prix internationaux, dont le Prix Fipresci de la Critique internationale à la Quinzaine 2002 du Festival de Cannes.
Il meurt dans un accident de la circulation le 13 août 2011, alors qu'il rentrait de Dhaka sur l'autoroute de Dhaka-Aricha au cours de repérages pour un prochain tournage. Dans l'accident, sa femme, Catherine Masud, a été grièvement blessée. Biographie
Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, East Pakistan. He had started his education in an Islamic madrasah, however, later Masud pursued general education. He had completed his HSC from Adamjee Cantonment College and completed his Masters degree in History from the University of Dhaka.
Tareque was involved in the film society movement from his university days and started his first film Adam Surat (The Inner Strength), a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan, in 1982. His 1995 feature length documentary on the 1971 Liberation War, Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom) brought record audiences and became a cult classic. He also made many other films on the war, including Muktir Kotha (Words of Freedom, 1999), Narir Kotha (Women and War, 2000) and Naroshundor (The Barbershop, 2009). In 2002, he completed his feature film Matir Moina (The Clay Bird), which was based on his childhood experience in the madrassa. The film won the Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, was the first Bangladeshi film to compete in the Oscars, and was released in many countries around the world.
In addition to his filmmaking work, he was also a pioneer of the independent film movement in Bangladesh. Tareque was a founding member of the Short Film Forum, the leading platform for independent filmmakers. In 1988, he organized the country’s first International Short and Documentary Film Festival, which is held on a biannual basis to this day. He was also known as the ‘Cinema Feriwalla’ for the way in which he showed his films, touring remote towns and villages throughout the country with his mobile projection unit.
His wife, American-born Catherine Masud, was his creative and life partner. They met at the time he was completing work on Adam Surat and spent the next two decades making films together through their production house Audiovision. Together they wrote scripts, often co-directed, and toured the country and the world with their films. Catherine also edited all of their work.
Masud died on August 13, 2011 in a tragic road accident while returning from work on location for his upcoming feature film Kagojer Phul (The Paper Flower), on the 1947 partition of Bengal. Also killed in the accident was his longtime cinematographer and friend Mishuk Munier, along with three other colleagues. Catherine Masud and four others survived the accident. Since his death, Catherine has established the Tareque Masud Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to the task of archiving and memorializing Masud’s work through publications, educational projects, screening programs, and the completion of their unfinished oeuvre.
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