Fahad Naveed is a visual artist, filmmaker, and PhD Candidate in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. His research focuses on border cinemas and the cross-border afterlives of films, with his current work exploring pirate archives of Bollywood cinema in Pakistan.

Fahad is a curator of Separation’s Geography, a cross-border collaborative project that brings together artists and creative practitioners from Pakistan and India. He is also a founding member of the Mandarjazail Collective, an interdisciplinary artist collective, and the Documentary Association of Pakistan, a filmmaker-run initiative. He has served as a programmer for the travelling Chalta Phirta Documentary Festival and the graduate student-initiated Framing Asia film series at UBC, supported by the StEAR Fund.

Prior to joining UBC, Fahad studied documentary filmmaking at New York University as a Fulbright Scholar and worked as an editorial staffer at Dawn newspaper in Pakistan.

His writing, photographs, and films have appeared in Pakistani and international news publications. His film and video works have been screened and exhibited internationally at venues and festivals including Open Doors Locarno, the South Asian Film Festival of Montréal, Pame International Film Festival (Nepal), the Karachi Biennale, Koel Gallery (Karachi), Hatch Gallery (Vancouver), and Neighbour Gallery (Trivandrum).