Syed Atef Amjad Ali Email & Phone Number

Syed Atef Amjad Ali is a documentary filmmaker and an academic with a Masters in Documentary by Practice from Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom (UK). He received the One World Broadcasting Trust Student Bursary Award (2006) and the Jan Vrijman Fund (2008) for his thesis documentary titled “The Red Mosque”. The film had its world premiere at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2008. He is the founder and currently head of the School of Creative Arts, University of Lahore and is responsible for designing and developing curriculum for Media, Film & Television, Animation, VFX, Visual Communication Design, Visual Arts degree programs. He also launched the PhD in Media and Communication Studies program.He was slso part of the Institute for Art & Culture from 2016 to 2019 during which he worked on various Cultural Heritage projects with UNESCO. His documentary film titled “Suri Jagek” was part of the inscription of UNESCO’s Urgent Safeguarding List (USL) for Intangible Cultural Heritage. This was Pakistan’s first independent nomination and was successfully adopted for inscription as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in need of urgent safeguarding at the ongoing 13th Session of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee held in Mauritius in 2018. He has done extensive audio/visual research on the Kalash Culture of Pakistan with UNESCO in various projects. His book chapter titled “Blue Eyes and Blonde Hair, Visual Representation and Consumption of Kalasha Culture” was published in “From Tsiam to the Hindu Kush: Kalasha people and their culture, UNESCO,2019. He has conducted various audio/visual documentation workshops for the National History & Literary Heritage Division (Government of Pakistan), CRIHAP, and UNESCO in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Southern and Central Punjab, Pakistan.

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  Royal Holloway, University Of London

  Documentary By Practice