Tareque Masud
Tareque Masud ( Bangla: তারেক মাসুদ, Tarek Masud; * December 6, 1956 or 1957 in Faridpur, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, † August 13 2011 in Manikganj, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh ) was an award-winning director from Bangladesh. He has directed the films and Matir Moina Muktir Gaan (2002 ) for which he won a number of international awards, including the International Critics' Prize and the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2002
Biography
Tareque Masud was born in 1956 or 1957 in the village of Nurpur in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district and spent most of his childhood in a madrasa ( Islamic school). Through the Bangladesh war in 1971 his studies were interrupted first. After the war he studied at the University of Dhaka history. While still a student attended Masud Movies courses began in 1982 and his first film about the painter SM Sultan. There followed a series of documentaries and animated films. In 1989 he married the U.S. citizen Catherine Masud and moved to New York with her. He died in a car accident on August 13, 2011 at the Dhaka- Aricha Highway in Manikganj and his cameraman Mishuk Munier; his wife was seriously injured.