Addicted to the serendipity that comes with the documentary film making. Exploring new stories, ideas ,places and people is what drives me. Curiosity to understand and reproduce for screen the nooks and corners of life that lie hidden from us.
Aftab graduated from National College of Arts Lahore Pakistan (NCA) in 2005-09 from the pioneering batch of film making. He has worked for various top of the line news channels and documentary production houses in a decade long experience as a Director/ Producer and cinematographer.
Serendipity is the magic word that Aftab believes, makes documentary filmmaking a delight. It helps him understand himself and his surrounding in a different way after every project. As a constant process of learning and experimentation, documentary filmmaking has been his biggest passion and source of inspiration.
The range of subjects that Aftab has tackled in his career range from stories about super achievers who overcame their less than perfect circumstances to achieve prominence, nature and environment, women empowerment, governance, law and legislature, history and religion, science, education, sports and various other themes.
His experience in experimenting with the form and style of telling stories has taught him to mold narratives for maximum impact for any story. This has led to his documentaries winning awards in several international festivals for themes ranging from women empowerment, sports, environment and differently abled high achievers.
His documentary “Manchar The Last of the Lake” people, won the Best ecological disaster short at the International Green Film Festival Krakow, Poland.
This documentary also won the Silver Award at the prestigious Handle Climate Change Film Festival, China.
Likewise, his documentaries “Twinkle The Power to Change” and “Niaz A Zest” for life won awards internationally.
Twinkle Power to Change won the Best Documentary Short, Audience Award, Night of the Short film Antwerp, Belgium.
Niaz A Zest for Life won the LAMPA award at United Nations, Geneva. It was also a Jury Winner, 2019 Music Shorts Film Festival Audience Award.
Along with these awards his documentaries have been selected at various festivals around the globe.
  • Director (15 Credits)
    Churches of Lahore
    Documentary
    Manchar The Last of the Lake People
    Documentary
    Manchar The Last of the lake People
    Documentary
    Niaz A Zest for Life
    Documentary
    Nut say Natak men who play women
    Documentary
    RasoolPur Impossible is Possible
    Documentary
    The Heart Smiles
    Short Script
    Lalo lal2018
    Documentary
    The Tears of Shiva Katas Raj2018
    Documentary
    Twinkle Power To Change2018
    Documentary
    Twinkle-Power to Change2018
    Documentary
    Breaking the Shackles2017
    Documentary
    Renaissance Club2017
    Documentary
    The Living Night2017
    Documentary
    Youhanabad Remembering The Martyrs 2017
    Documentary
  • Writer (1 Credit)
    The Heart Smiles
    Short Script
Birth Date
November 28, 1983
Birth City
Abbottabad
Current City
Kitchener
Ethnicity
Asian
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Addicted to the serendipity that comes with the documentary film making. Exploring new stories, ideas ,places and people is what drives me. Curiosity to understand and reproduce for screen the nooks and corners of life that lie hidden from us.
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