THE CREW
Wahid Ibn Reza
Director, Executive Producer & Writer Wahid is an award winning filmmaker from Bangladesh currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. His shortfilm What Am I Doing Here? has screened in various festivals across the globe and won multiple awards. His animated short film The Paranoid Cat was screened at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2016 at San Jose. Wahid has been working in production in the animation and VFX industry for the past 6 years in North America. He has worked on Emmy winning series Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones and Academy Award- winning/ nominated films such as Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Doctor Strange. He is currently working as Associate Production Manager at Sony Picture Imageworks. |
Shariful Islam
Production Designer & Concept Artist Shariful Islam is a Cannes award winning artist. He was the first in the history of Bangladesh to win the Gold at the CANNES LIONS FILM FESTIVAL in 2016 for Product Design. He has also been the finalist at the CANNES LIONS three times. Additionally, Shariful has won several other local and international awards. He debuted as an Art Director for the feature film Bhubon Majhi, an Indo-Bangla production period. He also worked as concept artist on horror thriller film Debi. He is working as Production designer and concept artist for indie sci-fi movie Ommi and assistant Director for up coming Indo-Bangla production, Gondi. On Surviving 71, shariful is working as Production Designer, Concept, Storyboard and Background artist. |
Navid F. Rahman
Concept Artist & Designer Navid is an aspiring concept writer and graphic novel artist from Bangladesh, currently residing in Toronto, Canada. His thematic short comic We Wrote Our Tomorrow was displayed at the Fumetto Comix Internationales Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2018. Navid has also participated twice in the International Manga Awards contest held in Tokyo, Japan. Presently, Navid is working as Business Development Associate at American Express in Toronto. He has designed the logo and the thematic posters, as well as the official website for the animated film. |
Stellar Boar
Curtis Rioux – Artist/Animator Daniel Elliott – VFX/Compositing www.stellarboar.com Stellar Boar is a boutique animation studio based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founder/Director Curtis Rioux has over 10 years of experience in the entertainment industry, working on a variety of content from award-winning video game franchises to animation and directing for web, television, feature film and Netflix originals. He has worked with individuals like TBS show-runner Olan Rogers, animation legend Mike Judge and companies such as Disney, Loogaroo, Cartoon Conrad and BIG Studios. Using this career developed skill set Curtis established Stellar Boar in 2016. It is a group of in-house artists and animators, talented freelancers and experienced partners with a stellar dynamic that can be witnessed in the quality of its projects! |