animation film
Past
Art of "Song of Jhinuk"
Oct 19, 2024 – Oct 26, 2024
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. She also had the honor of presenting her films to the honorable president of France in a cultural meetup during his visit to Bangladesh in September 2023. She was selected as the representative of Bangladeshi animators by Alliance Francaise de Dhaka for the prestigious event.
Before embarking on her animation filmmaker 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 animated films, 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 the AMA Scholarship residency at Korea National University of Arts during her study.