Graduate Academic Assistant – Media Coordinator, Public Humanities Hub
PhD Candidate, Department of Asian Studies
Email: fahadnav@mail.ubc.ca
Fahad Naveed is a visual artist, filmmaker and interdisciplinary researcher. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Asian Studies, where his research focuses on border cinemas. His work engages with informal pirate archives of Bollywood cinema in Pakistan. Fahad is the curator of Separation’s Geography, a cross-border collaborative project bringing together 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. Fahad has served as a programmer for the travelling ‘Chalta Phirta Documentary Festival’ and the ‘Framing Asia’ film series at UBC.
Research Area: Film, Border cinema, South Asia, piracy, Archives, Pakistan, India