Menhaj Huda | |
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 Huda at the Dinard British film festival in France in October 2006 | |
| Born | 20 March 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
Menhaj Huda (born 20 March 1967) is a Bangladesh-born British film and television director and producer best known for the film Kidulthood .
Huda's first directing job was the 1993 television series Hypnosis. [1] He directed Jump Boy in 1999, which won an award for 'Best Feature Film' at the Mediawave awards. [2]
Other directing credits include Queer as Folk 2 , Is Harry on the Boat? , Murphy's Law , Murder in Mind , The Bill , Blue Murder and HolbyBlue .
Huda produced as well as directed Kidulthood and West 10 LDN , both written by Noel Clarke. [3] Huda won the 'Douglas Hickox Award' at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards. [4]
His horror film Comedown which stars Martin Compston, Adam Deacon, Geoff Bell, Red Madrell and Duane Henry, [5] was filmed in 2010 in London. [6] His "spiritual follow-up" to Kidulthood, Everywhere and Nowhere , based around the London DJ scene, was released in 2011.
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