Sadik Ahmed (Bengali: সাদিক আহমেদ; born 29 March 1977) is a Bangladeshi-born British film director and cinematographer.
Ahmed was born in Bangladesh, came to England as a child and was brought up in Stamford Hill, London.
[2] As his graduation film Ahmed made Tanju Miah,[3] a National Lottery-funded short which won Best Factual Film at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2007, Best Cinematography at the Kodak Student Commercial Awards 2006.
The film was received well by critics and Sight & Sound magazine named The Last Thakur "one of the most confident British debut features since Asif Kapadia's The Warrior (2001)… with which it shares an Asian location and language and a welcome belief in the primacy of visual storytelling.
He has since then signed into his second feature film, The King of Mirpur, which is an urban cop thriller set in the modern subcontinent.