Nargis Akhter is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and producer.
She is the first Bangladeshi woman to receive national and international film awards.
[3] Akhter was born in Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
[4] She gained early experience making television documentaries for a development organization.
Her first, Ajana Ghatak, on the subject of HIV AIDS, was broadcast in 1996.