Rezwan Shahriar Sumit

BIOGRAPHIE

Sumit was born and raised in Bangladesh's boisterous capital Dhaka. City Life, his first short, earned him a place at the Berlinale Talents in 2008. He went on to study at the Graduate Film Program of New York University as a Tisch Fellow. There he produced Barbara Cigarroa's acclaimed short Dios Nunca Muere that played at NYFF, AFI Fest, Palm Springs, and Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. His first feature The Salt in Our Waters was an official selection at BFI London and Busan in 2020. The film was nominated for the Ingmar Bergman Award at Göteborg and won the NETPAC Award (Best Asian Film) at Kolkata IFF. It also received funds from France’s CNC Aide aux cinémas du monde, TFL Audience Design fund, and the Spike Lee Fellowship. Sumit’s second feature A New Prophet is backed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ($100K grant), IEFTA, Torino Film Lab and Film Bazaar. The screenplay is in development at Film Independent’s year-long Global Media Makers program. He is currently in post with Sorry for the Inconvenience, a 35-min short he shot for Next10 Ventures.

FILMOGRAPHIE