Residence Manama, Bahrain Home town Karachi Role Visual Effects Artist | Name Zeeshan Shah Years active 1999–present Movies Dead Sands | |
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Born 31 May 1979 (age 44) ( 1979-05-31 ) Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia Education Masters in Computer Science (Majors in Multimedia)
from Iqra University Occupation Actor, director, artist People also search for Ameera Al-Qaed, Ahmed Zayani, Noor Al Ebrahim Profiles | ||
Zeeshan Jawed Shah (also known as Zeeshan J. Shah) (born 31 May 1979) is a Pakistani filmmaker based in Bahrain. Zeeshan teaches filmmaking, animation and visual effects courses in University College of Bahrain, previously Zeeshan had taught Fine Arts in New York Institute of Technology Bahrain Campus for more than seven years. Zeeshan is also considered as the pioneer of students film project in Bahrain and first one to do commercial feature-length films as student projects in Bahrain.
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Zeeshan was born in Saudi Arabia and came to Bahrain in 2006 to New York Institute of Technology Bahrain Campus, he mainly taught computer graphics and animation courses in the beginning and then he included Art History, Drawing, and Photography in his teaching list. Gradually he started to work on film projects with NYIT students in Bahrain and released three commercial films so far in Bahrain, and currently working on first International full-fledged Bahraini horror comedy. Apart from feature-length films, on 5 May 2013 Zeeshan showcased his UCB Students video projects in Bahrain in 2013, Saar Cinema. and in 2014 along with the first ever Multimedia Exhibition in Bahrain.
Biography
Zeeshan initially went to Dahran High School and then he was transferred to Pakistan International School, Al-Khobar in 1988. After finishing his high school in 1998, Zeeshan joined Iqra University in Karachi. He completed his Baccalaureate in Computer Science in 2002 and Masters in Computer Science with majors in Multimedia and Computer Graphics in 2003, he received scholarship for his Masters program. He also worked as a part-time as an in house graphic designer for Iqra University and taught continuing education and extended education programs.
Career
Soon after finishing his master's degree program, Zeeshan came to his birthplace Saudi Arabia in year 2003, where his father was still working in Siemens. Zeeshan joined a local Saudi company, where he started his career as an in house graphic designer. after two years Zeeshan moved to Riyadh and worked in an event organising company for only six months. In year 2006 Zeeshan came to Bahrain and joined New York Institute of Technology Bahrain Campus. In his first year in the university he taught basic three-dimensional design courses, 3D animation courses, web design courses, and motion graphics courses. And in year 2009 Zeeshan introduced a Film Making courses with the approval of NY head office. During his teaching history, Zeeshan participated in many local and international Arts Exhibitions, he participated in Al Aali Mall Art Exhibition 2012 and 2013 and #UniteBH and Phoenix Museum in US He also conducted Photography and Film Making workshop at Saudi Aramco in year 2011.
In the beginning of year 2012, NYIT Bahrain announced their campus relocation, after a year of this announcement Zeeshan switched his job from NYIT to University College of Bahrain.
Health
Zeeshan was diagnosed with kidney cancer in year 2014, determined to fight the deadly disease, he moved to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation , a premier medical college in Pakistan for a specialised treatment on 22 July. There, he underwent a surgery in which his right kidney was removed. Now, cured of cancer, Zeeshan was also undergone a kidney transplant same year.
Awards
Zeeshan Also worked with international artists and exhibited photography exhibition for peace during the uprising in Bahrain, one of his photography series from the same exhibition won Creativity International Gold Award for best photography series.
Filmography
Zeeshan is the first Film Maker in the history of Bahrain to offer a professional and commercial Film Making course at NYIT Bahrain Campus. Zeeshan's Idea was to launch a Bahrain Film City where students join the program and produce movies, work on digital media, learn performance art, direction and many other areas related to movies. Zeeshan suggested NYIT head office in New York in year 2008 and proposed them to offer a course called special projects B related to film making, the main idea behind special projects B was to launch a course where students combines all those skills and techniques of computer graphics courses that they had learn in past semesters, they fuse all those in one project and the best project to implement all this was the Film Making course. Zeeshan released his students first movie in Bahrain in year 2009, which was called Paranorma, it was a horror anthology movie that contains three separate horror stories. His second movie with the students was Gilgamesh Pearl, the movie was released in saar cinema in Bahrain in year 2011, the movie revolves around three friends who were wrongly accused of series of murders, the movie raised $2,567 and was donated to charity: water. Zeeshan's third movie with students was released on 12 May 2012 in Seef Megaplex, the movie was called Silveraven which became a huge success and according to IMDB it is one of the best titles of Bahrain so far, the story of the movie "Silveraven" revolves around an alien orphan who came to earth from the planet called Ravena which was abducted by an evil villain Maverick, "Silveraven" movie raised $2,637 and was donated to Bahrain Red Crescent Society. Zeeshan was also involved in short film projects with the students and recently he worked for HRH Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa International Scholarship program, this was for the first time the crown prince international scholarship program was ever filmed. Zeeshan's latest project is Bahrain's first full-fledged Horror Comedy "Dead Sands" Dead Sands was premiered on 20 November in Bahrain, and was a big hit in Bahrain, the movie created a history for being the best students film project and the director of the movie Ameera Qaed was pronounced Bahrain's first female film director, Dead Sands was released under Fantasy Feature banner and was sponsored by Ahmed Zayani and Sons, Bahrain Cinema Company, and NYIT Bahrain. On 5 May 2013, Zeeshan showcased 10 short films produced by his students from University College of Bahrain in Bahrain Saar Cinema. In the 2015 Zeeshan Shah worked with his old friend Saleh Sharif and produced a filmed called "Bits of What I Have" that Saleh wrote, the film was considered as Bahrain's first international movie entirely shot in Turkey in Turkish Language. The film got highly recognised as one of the major ground break Bahraini film that belongs to a serious and real cinema.