- EducationMFA, Directing — UCLA, 2015
- BA, Film & Religious Studies — Univ. of Oklahoma, 2009
- CompanyCEO & Co-Founder, Goopy Bagha Productions
- MembershipsDirector's Guild of Bangladesh
- Producer's Guild of Bangladesh
Bijon Imtiaz is a director, producer, and writer working at the intersection of festival cinema and social-impact storytelling. For more than a decade his company, Goopy Bagha Productions, has built co-productions moving between Bangladesh, the wider South Asian diaspora, Europe, and the United States, alongside documentary and branded work for organizations including the United Nations, the BBC, Save the Children, and WaterAid.
His own work as a writer and director centers cross-border South Asian stories, frequently built around queer and gender-expansive characters and the politics of migration. Kingdom of Clay Subjects premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival and went on to a theatrical release with critical acclaim. A Thing about Kashem won Best LGBTQ Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and qualified for the Academy Awards. His next feature as writer-director, Paradise, is in development with producer Roman Paul of Razor Film Produktion (Waltz with Bashir, Quo Vadis, Aida?) and has moved through the Berlinale co-production market and Locarno's Open Doors lab.
As a producer, he has shepherded projects through Sundance's Screenwriting Intensive, Film Independent's Producing Lab and Fast Track, Torino Film Lab, and Cannes' La Fabrique, and has brought in development and production funding including two Sloan grants, the Taipei Film Commission Fund, and France's Aide aux cinémas du monde.
Alongside production, he teaches directing and producing at UCLA and Cal State Northridge, a continuation of the mentorship that shaped his own training, recognized with the Dorothy Arzner Memorial Award and the Edie & Lew Wasserman Fellowship at UCLA, where he completed his MFA in 2015.