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Sadik Ahmed is an award winning Director/ Cinematographer, who studied Fine Art at Central St Martins School of Art, before coming to the National Film and Television School to study his [[Master of Arts (postgraduate) |MA]] Cinematography. As his graduation film he made ‘'Tanju Miah'’, a national lottery funded short which won Best Factual Film at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards in 2007, a Kodak cinematography award as well as being runner up in the best new comer category at the Grierson Awards 2006, TCM classic shorts, Satyajit Ray - award, amongst others .
The film went onto tour both Sundance and Toronto Film Festival amongst others. Sadik simultaneously also working as a sole cinematographer (apart from his dual Director/Dop role) won another Kodak cinematography award that year for a Kodak commercial he shot as Cinematographer.
Sadik’s career has since then propelled him as Director/Cinematographer – he went on to direct and shoot a promo for Talvin Singh and quickly moved into his debut feature film production, a western set in the subcontinent ‘The Last Thakur’ in 2007 – a Channel 4 co - production with Artificial Eye as the distributor.
The film was received well by critics and Sight and Sound magazine named The Last Thakur “one of the most confident British debut features since Asif Kapadia’s The Warrior (2001)… with which it shares an Asian location and language and a welcome belief in the primacy of visual storytelling”. [citation needed] An article about it also appeared in the Guardian [1]
The film opened to a sell screenings at the London film festival and then went onto to tour Dubai, Mumbai, New York amongst others and finally had its theatrical release here in the UK.
In January 2010, Sadik was nominated for a Cinematography Fellowship Award by the Arts Council.
Sadik has since then signed into his second feature film – an urban cop film set in the modern subcontinent.