Fahad Naveed received his MA in News and Documentary Film from New York University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is now a PhD student at the Asian Studies department at the University of British Columbia. Fahad looks at narrative-building through cinema and explores questions related to representation and the role of the media in shaping perceptions. His research interests include South Asian cinema, transnational cinema and border cinemas. Fahad is a founding member of the Mandarjazail Collective, an interdisciplinary artist collective in Karachi, Pakistan, and is also a co-founder of the Documentary Association of Pakistan. He has served as a programmer for the traveling Chalta Phirta Film Festival. Fahad has also worked a journalist with Dawn, Pakistan’s most widely read English language newspaper. Much of his work is interdisciplinary. His writing, photographs and films have been featured by various Pakistani and international publications and news outlets. His film and video art work has also been screened and exhibited at venues and festivals around the world.