Waheed Khan

"Waheed Khan" is a documentary television director working in British television.

Of Pakistani parentage he originally worked as an actor but switched careers while waiting for acting roles and becoming a camera operator worked on documentaries for BBC Current Affairs eventually directing and producing documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 of a public service nature on a variety of subjects.

Khan is also a director of the 10 part British Asian BBC 2 arts, culture, lifestyle and entertainment television magazine show "Desi DNA". In September 2007 he began directing The Culture Show which is broadcast on BBC 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/

A current project being concluded by Khan is a short film entitled "Orange People", which concerns the dangers of obsessive suntanning. 2 writing projects that Waheed is putting the final touches to include a theatre play, 'Easy As Pie' and a feature length screenplay, 'Terra Cotta Path'.

Broadcast works

*"Desi DNA",(BBC 2)
*"Hajj - The Greatest Trip on Earth"(Channel 4)
*"Dating The Asian Way" (BBC)
*"Black Ambition" (BBC)
*"The Colour of Love" (BBC)
*"Black Britain: Nobody's Child" (BBC)
*"BodyPackers"
*"The Search for Mr England" (Channel 4)
*"Kenyon Confronts" (BBC 1)
*"The Real Fresh Prince" ( BBC 2)

External links

* [http://www.orangepeoplefilm.com/ Orange People website]
* [http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/television/1274 Asians in Media magazine about Waheed Khan]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2469835/]