Rizwaan Chowdhri

Rizwaan Chowdhri is a young talented and educated film maker of Pakistan who has worked for the entertainment industry of Pakistan for the last 15 years. His work includes almost all top and super hit productions including all over world released film "Khuda Key Liye", made mostly in Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, England and America. He also worked as production designer and creative manager with very well reputed and well known director and producer Shoaib Mansoor for about 8 years, for many productions like the short film Anarkali, released by Supreme and Lux Style award holder, which is based on a song and for Supreme-ISHQ 1(Teray Ishq Nachaya). This is notable in that there is no one in the Pakistani industry who has worked this long for Shoaib Mansoor who also known as one of the difficult producers as well as creative writers.He also worked for several years for Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW) and done many performing arts festivals which included at least 400 delegations all around the world for puppets, Dance, Theatre and music yearly. These festivals which held in October or November are very well known among artists all over globe and has special significant for their cultural activities and artists.

Rizwaan Chowdhri has already directed many known TV shows such as "Montage", "Star and Style", film review shows such as "Box Office", "Lahore say Bombay tak" and many more. He also has produced and directed a few sitcom series which gained good ratings among viewers and in market. He is basically known as the creative as well as technical person who can execute all kinds of productions from a small event to Hollywood standard films. He has done two feature films with Hollywood as well after doing "Khuda Key Liye" which are under post-production, with Mercury Productions and with Salman Peerzada. His popular series "Urban Desi" is on-air these days from a local Television network. He teaches Film art, Sound Design and Tv productions in the world famous institute "National College of Arts", Lahore, Pakistan. He spends most of his time in mountains in summers on the north of Pakistan, including Gilgit, Sakardu, Basham, Shandur, Deer, Kailash(Kafiristan), and Afghanistan. He loves doing Photography.

Currently he is working for a satellite Tv network as Director and Producer, in Pakistan.

Sources

*Film "Khuda Key Liye" in English Known as "In the name of God" or "For the sake of Allah"
*Daily News Papers like "Daily Times", "Daily AAJ KAL", "Business Recorder"
*Hollywood film "Raven and Lenore"
*BBC selected documentary on indoPak Classical dances "Laatoo"