Pakistani documentary filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad wins big at the New York Festivals 2021

Winning Accolades

Award-winning Pakistani documentary filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad has been on a winning streak lately as he is bagging accolades one after the other. Recently, he bagged an award at the New York Festivals 2021 for a record seventh time. The filmmaker clinched the Bronze Global Award for his documentary film Brazil’s Amazonian Battle in the Environment and Ecology category. To film this documentary, Shehzad went on a dangerous journey deep inside Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest to film with the Mundurukku Tribe whose protected lands were being infiltrated by armed gold miners. Shehzad has previously won a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals in 2016 for his documentary Flight of the Falcons, a Silver World Medal for Kasur’s Lost Children in 2017, a Silver World Medal for Rise and Fall of Mujib and a Bronze for Nepal’s Child Brides in 2019, followed by two silvers for Whiter Shade of Terror in 2020. He has also won three Global Media Awards in Germany, Green Image Award in Japan, Silver Award at the 2020 Handle Climate Change Film Festival in China and many other awards from all over the world.

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