Junaid Halim

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Junaid Halim
জুনায়েদ হালিম
NationalityBangladeshi
Occupation(s)Film editor and professor (Professor of Film and Television Studies at Jagannath University)
Years active1993–Present
Awards full list

Junaid Halim is a Bangladeshi film actor and editor. He is also one of the renowned professors of film studies in Bangladesh. He was the chairman of the Film & TV department at Jagannath University, one of the reputed public universities in Bangladesh. [1] He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Editing three times for the films Shankhonad (2004), Britter Baire (2009) and Maya: The Lost Mother (2019). [2]

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Early life

Junaid Halim was born in Madhabdi municipality area in Narsingdi District under Dhaka division. His parents are late A. J. M Abdul Halim Mollah and late Rijia Halim.

Education

Professor Junaid Halim obtained his honors and masters degrees from the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka (1983-87). He later have flown to India to pursue his higher education at the Film and Television Institute, Pune and completed his Diploma in Cinema (Specialization in Editing) in (1995-1996). He returned to Dhaka later and joined as a lecturer of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Jagannath University.

Filmography

As an actor

As an editor

  • Shorot'71 – 2000
  • Bachelor – 2004
  • Shankhonad – 2005
  • Rani Kuthir Baki Itihash – 2006
  • Nirontor – 2006
  • Swopnodanay – 2007
  • Banshi – 2007
  • Rupantor – 2008
  • Britter Bairey – 2009
  • Sohagi's Ornament – 2015

Awards and nominations

National Film Awards

YearAwardCategoryFilmResult
2004National Film AwardBest Editing Shankhonad Won
2009National Film Award Best Editing Britter BaireWon [3]
2019National Film AwardBest Editing Maya: The Lost Mother Won [4]

References

  1. "জবির ফিল্ম এন্ড টেলিভিশন বিভাগের দ্বায়িত্বে ফের জুনায়েদ হালিম".
  2. "Award-2019" (PDF) (in Bengali). Ministry of Information. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) [List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)]. Government of Bangladesh (in Bengali). Bangladesh Film Development Corporation. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  4. "তিনবার চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার জিতলেন অধ্যাপক জুনায়েদ হালিম". jagonews24.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-12. Retrieved 2025-04-16.