BASSAM TARIQ is a doc and narrative filmmaker who worked as a copywriter at several major agencies in NYC before he turned his focus to directing. His debut fiction feature Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, premiered at Berlinale and won the International Critics Prize. He is a TED Fellow and was named Filmmaker Magazine’s ‘25 New Faces of Independent Film.’

His previous film Ghosts Of Sugar Land won the Short Film Jury Prize at Sundance and was released as a Netflix Original. His first feature documentary, These Birds Walk, premiered at SXSW and is distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Then shortly after its release the film was named by IndieWire, The Playlist and Sights + Sound Magazine as one of the best movies the year. It was also named one of the 50 best foreign films of the 21st century by the New Yorker.