Junaid Faizullah
About
While completing a BA Hons Business Management degree at Queen Mary University of London, Junaid worked as part of a volunteer documentary film crew for Hackney-based charity WORLDWrite, receiving training in all aspects of documentary filmmaking including presenting, camera operating, sound recording, producing and directing. He went on to study Method Acting with Sam Rumbelow in the techniques of Lee Strasberg and Konstantin Stanislavski. For his dissertation on his BA Hons, Junaid wrote an in-depth study on the film ‘The Battle of Algiers’ directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, and the film remains one of the largest impacts on Junaid’s work. Upon graduating Junaid won a DaDA scholarship on the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts MA Acting Course. This 15-month course consisted of intensive training in Acting Technique, Voice and Movement for performance in theatre, radio and film. Upon graduating from Drama School Junaid was represented by Jeremy Conway at Conway van Gelder Grant and went on to perform on stage in ‘The President and the Pakistani’ directed by Tom Attenborough and in the feature film ‘Plan Bart’ for Caviar Films. Now making the move back to his passion of filmmaking, J...
