Bangladesh filmmaker Masud dies in crash :: CBC News
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Tareque Masud, an award-winning Bangladeshi filmmaker whose work was recognized at the Cannes Film Festival, has died after a weekend bus accident.
Masud was among five minibus passengers who died in a crash near the Bangladesh capital city of Dhaka on Saturday.
Also killed was cinematographer Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, a former journalist who served as head of the private TV station ATN.
Masud's wife — American film producer Catherine Masud — and painter Dhali Al Mamun were among the passengers seriously injured in the highway accident, which occurred when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided with a larger bus.
The group had been returning to the capital after visiting a potential site for Masud's forthcoming film The Paper Flower. The bus driver, who initially fled the scene, is in police custody and an investigation into the accident is under way.
Fans, colleagues pay respects
Thousands gathered in Dhaka on Sunday to pay tribute to Masud, Mishuk and the others killed in the accident.
Nurul Islam Nahid, the country's minister of education, described their deaths as "a national loss."
Considered one of Bangladesh's most prominent and celebrated filmmakers on the world stage, Masud earned the International Critic's Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as well as the FIPRESCI prize at that year's corresponding Directors' Fortnight for his feature film debut,The Clay Bird.
Screened at film festivals around the globe, the drama tells the story of a young boy studying at a madrasa (Islamic religious school) and was inspired by Masud's own education. In 2003, Bangladeshi officials subsequently selected the movie as the country's first-ever submission for best foreign film Oscar consideration.
Other credits include the 2006 drama The Homeland and 1995's The Song of Freedom, a documentary that chronicled the experiences of a travelling musical troupe during Bangladesh's Liberation War.
By: CBC News
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