Adit Dewan

Adit Dewan is a Dhaka-based filmmaker and curator from the Chakma indigenous community of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. His filmmaking and curatorial work centres on identity, language and the realities of the country's indigenous peoples, and he is drawn to questions of meaning, existence and power across the human, animal and natural worlds. He is a co-founder and currently festival director of the Hill Film Festival, which focuses on indigenous-language films from Bangladesh. He received the Seed Award and the Moving Narratives Fellowship from the Prince Claus Fund, and a Curatorial Intensive South Asia fellowship from the Goethe-Institut and Khoj International Artists' Association in New Delhi. He studied zoology and film studies, and works as programme curator at SHALA Neighbourhood Art Space, a Dhaka gallery.