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Ian Iqbal Rashid was born on 1968 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a British film director and poet. Discover Ian Iqbal Rashid's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Ian Iqbal Rashid (born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the TV series Sort Of and This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.

Of Indian ancestry and raised in the Ismaili Muslim faith, Rashid's family lived in colonial East Africa for generations.

1950

He wrote and read his short story "Muscular Bridges" for BBC Radio 4's 50th HMT Windrush Anniversary, which later evolved into the feature film Touch of Pink

Rashid has also written song lyrics, most notably for his film Touch of Pink.

1968

Different years of birth are given for Rashid in different sources, but academic work gives the year as 1968.

1970

In the early 1970s, his family was forced to leave Tanzania.

After failing to secure asylum in the UK and US, they settled in Toronto.

Rashid began his career as an arts journalist, critic, curator, and events programmer, particularly focussed on South Asian diasporic, Muslim and LGBTQ cultural work.

1980

In the late 1980s, Rashid was a regular contributor to the Canadian LGBT magazine Rites, and the cultural journals Fuse and TSAR Publications.

1990

In the early 1990s, Rashid returned to London, Britain, where he met his partner, the writer, curator, and academic Peter Ride.

He then won a bursary to attend a prestigious BBC writing internship programme Black Screen and soon after started working in film and television as a screenwriter, director and producer.

He currently divides his time between Canada and the UK.

Rashid is best known for the iconic BAFTA-winning BBC show, This Life for which he won a Writer's Guild of Great Britain award, and for writing and co-exec producing across three seasons of the critical hit and Peabody Awards winning series Sort Of, which has appeared on many end-of-year best lists after it dropped on CBC and HBO Max in late 2021.

For Sort Of, he has been nominated for best comedy series writer at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards and the 2022 Writers Guild of Canada award for the episode "Sort Of Mary Poppins".

Rashid began working as a writer in UK television in the late 1990s, trained on the BBC's Black Screen internship.

His early credits include Dilly Downtown, and the soap London Bridge (Carlton Television for ITV) along with the BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winner, This Life.

For BBC's Woman's Hour Programme, Rashid wrote and directed Leaving Normal, a comedy serial about same-sex adoption starring Imelda Staunton and Meera Syal.

Rashid has created and is currently writing a family dramedy for Amazon Prime Video as well as a young adult fantasy series for the CBC.

In recent years he has written pilots for ITV (TV network), Lionsgate, and Showtime (TV network).

He is currently co-executive producer and writer on the third season of Sort Of, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and HBO Max.

In 2022, Ian was awarded a fellowship on the CBC-BIPOC TV & Film Showrunner Catalyst in partnership with the Canadian Film Centre as an emerging television/streaming showrunner.

1991

Self-taught as a film-maker, in 1991, Rashid made the short film Bolo Bolo! with Kaspar Saxena.

The film, part of an HIV/AIDS cable access series called Toronto Living With AIDS, resulted in the series being pulled from Rogers Television after complaints about sexually suggestive content, though it had a long and healthy life at film festivals.

Rashid published his first poetry collection, Black Markets, White Boyfriends and Other Acts of Elision, in 1991.

1993

Two more followed: the chapbook Song of Sabu in 1993 and The Heat Yesterday in 1995.

Rashid has recently started publishing poetry again, and a fourth collection is rumoured.

His curatorial catalogue essay for "Beyond Destinations", a show he curated for Ikon Gallery in 1993, was reprinted in Rungh in December 2019.

1995

In 1995, he was the Guest Editor for Rungh magazine's Queer Special Issue.

1999

Rashid went on to write two award-winning short films, Surviving Sabu (1999, Arts Council of England) and Stag (2001, BBC Films).

Touch of Pink, Rashid's first feature film, spent 12 years in development.

2003

In 2003, he finally had the chance to direct the project as a Canada-UK co-production.

2004

It premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim, a bidding war, and eventually, a sale to Sony Picture Classics.

The film has attracted extensive scholarly commentary.

How She Move received a similarly positive reception at the Sundance Film Festival.

2007

Directed by Rashid in 2007, the film is set in the world of step dancing.

It was nominated for a Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and purchased by Paramount Vantage.

The film opened to positive reviews and strong box office.

His poems have appeared in journals and been anthologized widely including the poems "Another Country", "Could Have Danced All Night", "Hot Property" and "Early Dinner, Weekend Away" in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets,.

2009

More early work is included in the 2009 anthology Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets.

He is referenced in the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature and Making a Difference:Canadian Multicultural Literature.