- published: 29 Oct 2012
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Aneel Ahmad is a British filmmaker, writer, film director, and producer who specialises in documentaries and shorts.
Ahmad was born and raised in a working-class family in Manchester
With no formal training and no film education or qualifications, Ahmad started off making low budget HI8 films with his friends. In 2005 he gained recognition by directing his first short film on a tiny budget of ₤2,500, Waiting For Sunrise. In his early career, Ahmad gained experience by participating in many prestigious film writing courses; these included TAPS BAFTA, The First Film Foundation, Raindance Film Festival Script development, BBC's "Writers Room" new writers initiative, and The Writers Gym M.A Writers course (London Film School & French Institute). He was also part of other film courses such as NFTS Compass Point 2009/10, a mentoring programme for minorities run by Paul Moody (NFTS) and Marc Boothe, producer of Bullet Boy (B3Media) Some of the film mentors included Oscar BAFTA Winning directors Danny Boyle, Kevin Macdonald, Penny Woolcock, Asif Kapadia and artist Steve McQueen