Zeeshan Jawed Shah

Zeeshan Jawed Shah (also known as Zeeshan J. Shah) (born May 31, 1979) is a Pakistani Film Maker based in Bahrain, he is also pioneer of students film projects in Bahrain and First One to do commercial English language Bahrain based movies. Apart from film making Zeeshan is also an Art Professor and teaching Fine Arts in New York Institute of Technology Bahrain Campus.

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.

Early life

Zeeshan was born to Jawed Ali Shah(Father) and Shahdab Jawed(Mother), his father is working as an turbine balancing expert in Siemens and he is still working there but now promoted to senior turbine specialist. Zeeshan was born to a lower class expat from Pakistan working in Saudi Arabia. Zeeshan grew watching bollywood and hollywood movies which had a great impact on him and convinced him to make his own movies in future, he use to carry his father's old VHS camera (m3000 Panasonic) and use to make movies with that. Zeeshan was a loner in his childhood and was suffering from severe stammering problem. His parents couldn't afford a speech therapist for his stammering treatment. His School teachers predicted and some assumed that he wont be able to participate in any activity that involves speech.

Education

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 moved to his home land Pakistan where he 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 masters 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 organizing company for only 6 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, one of them was in Al Aali Mall and Phoenix Museum in U.S. 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 Bahrian 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 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" which is currently under pre-production and is going to be release in Summer 2013.

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