Art of "Song of Jhinuk"
Afroza Hossain Sara
Afroza is a visual artist and animation filmmaker based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Having completed her debut short film Song of Whales, she is now working on her first feature film, Song of Jhinuk. With these projects, Afroza has earned recognition as the winner of the West meets East Screenlab 2023 and was selected to participate in Climate Story Lab South Asia 2022. Her work was also a quarterfinalist at the Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition in 2022, and she has exhibited nationally and internationally at prestigious events such as Ora Egaro Jon in Bangladesh, TRAUMWELT in Berlin and Calm, Centered, Awake in Seattle.
Before embarking on animation film maker journey in 2021, Afroza spent over a decade directing and animating more than 100 projects for the development sector in Bangladesh. Her rich experience informs her art practice and passion for animation film, which is grounded in her academic background in Drawing and Painting from the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Dhaka. She has also been part of AMA Scholarship residency at Korea National University of Arts during her study.