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• Won Highly Commended award at Association of International Broadcasting 2022 for India’s Saffron Brigade: https://theprint.in/go-to-pakistan/pakistani-film-on-hindu-nationalism-is-just-one-part-series-looks-at-islamic-right-wing-too/1307292/

• Won Best Documentary award at the 2023 Madras Independent Film Festival for India’s Endangered Elephants

• Won Best Documentary “Gold” Award at Tokyo Film Award 2023 for Oceans of Plastic: https://www.tokyofilmawards.com/winners

• Won Best Documentary award for the 2023 Sundarban International Film Festival 2023 for India’s Endangered Elephants

• https://internationalgreenfilmfestival.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/november-2022-to-january-2023-result/?fbclid=IwAR2096sHMdZXhhtkj2DmdL68tmPffDwoXP3HP2Pi4U3FY3pRwPmCTnnpNeA

• Best Documentary Award at the 2022 Shanghai Indie International Film Festival: http://www.siiff.online/

• Won Best Documentary for Pakistan’s Heat Storm at the Golden Earth Film Awards

• Won Best Documentary award for Islam’s Battle Within at 2022 Madras Independent Film Festival

• Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Sundarban International Film Festival 2022 for Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster https://propakistani.pk/lens/pakistani-filmmaker-shehzad-hameed-ahmad-wins-outstanding-achievement-award-in-bangladesh/?fbclid=IwAR3klhXIVXSJ_Q0EJDuGg18LSRnXE8G-W3ZQzhUCkbbAWkKPfO5QGK10qRw

• Finalist at New York Festivals 2022 for Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster in the Climate Change and Sustainability category: https://tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/WinnerDetailsNew/b9f795ec-f144-4745-a3dd-bf60d2a456ad

• Won Most Commendable mention at the Association of International Broadcasting 2021 for Saving Indonesia’s Citarum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoRgi2sUfk

• Finalist at New York Festivals 2022 for Trouble on the Mekong in the Human Rights category: https://tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/WinnerDetailsNew/6a57b6f8-0035-42ff-adb2-5906a79671e8

• Won Best Feature Documentary Award at Paris Film Festival 2021 for ‘Caught in the Crossfire’: https://www.parhlo.com/shehzad-hameed-picks-best-feature-documentary-award-at-paris-film-festival/

• Won Bronze World Medal at New York Festivals 2021 for ‘Brazil’s Amazonian Battle’: https://www.somethinghaute.com/documentary-filmmaker-shehzad-hameed-ahmad-wins-at-the-new-york-festivals-2021/

• Won Silver Award at World Media Festivals 2021 in Hamburg, Germany for Australia’s Coal Conundrum: https://www.islamabadscene.com/pakistani-filmmaker-shehzad-hameed-wins-award-for-documentary-australias-coal-conundrum/?fbclid=IwAR12VfpEt18NIwxgBDfPn9AFAPHp8wpN0Skxekk0G3_IcVdn61EDHX9I1Dk

• Won Green Image Award at the 8th Green Image Film Festival in Japan 2021 for Pakistan’s Himalayan Meltdown

https://pamirtimes.net/2021/03/30/pakistani-filmmaker-shehzad-hameeds-himalayan-documentary-wins-in-japan/

• Won Best Documentary Award for Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster at the Tagore International Film Festival 2021 https://cutacut.com/2021/03/31/shehzad-hameed-documentary/

• Won Best Documentary Award for Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster at the Madras International Film Festival 2021.

• Finalist at the Muslim Film Festival for Whiter Shade of Terror, an investigation into white supremacist groups across the globe.

• Won the Gender Equality Impact Changemaker (Male Individual) by United Women Singapore 2020 for Nepal’s Child Brides: https://images.dawn.com/news/1185938

• Awarded the Silver Award in Shenzhen, China by the Handle Climate Change Film Festival 2020 for Brazil’s Amazonian Battle: https://www.parhlo.com/filmmaker-shehzad-hameed-ahmad-wins-silver-award/#:~:text=Pakistani%20filmmaker%20Shehzad%20Hameed%20Ahmad,Handle%20Climate%20Change%20Film%20Festival.&text=Ahmad's%20documentary%20titled%20'Brazil's%20Amazonian,more%20than%20one%20thousand%20films

• Nominated for Pakistan’s most prestigious journalism competition, ‘Agahi Award 2020’ for Pakistan’s Himalayan Meltdown: https://agahiawards.com/2020/nominee/pakistans-himalayan-meltdown/

• Society of Publishers in Asia: Award-Finalist 'Pakistan's Mainstreaming Terror' shortlisted as an award-finalist in the Excellence in Investigative Reporting category. https://tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/WinnerDetailsNew/7704052b-440b-4e17-b06e-ee8e3b587709

• Award-Finalist for 'Caught in the Crossfire' in the Excellence in Human Rights Reporting. https://2020.sopawards.com/the-sopa-awards/awards-finalists/

• Served as Judge for the Associate of International Broadcasting Awards 2020: https://propakistani.pk/lens/pakistani-filmmaker-becomes-part-of-jury-of-association-of-international-broadcasting-awards-2020/

• Won the Silver World Award at New York Festivals 2020 for Whiter Shade of Terror in the Human Rights Category

• Won the Bronze World Award for Caught in the Crossfire in the Human Concerns Category. https://propakistani.pk/lens/pakistani-filmmaker-bags-two-awards-from-new-york-festival-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0m8kwUSCqOwVhqz8rq6tV8qHCDuvcypUtSURBZePP6FZHrh6jr4gl_CdA

• Won the Silver award at the 2020 World Media Festivals  |  Television & Corporate Media Awards for Caught in the Crossfire in the Global Issues category. https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/pakistani-filmmaker-wins-2-awards-in-germany-for-afghan-war-documentaries-1.71576036

• Won the Silver award in the Documentary: Political category for The Battle for Kabul. https://images.dawn.com/news/1185277?fbclid=IwAR3_qk9neCW-kK1XFi7L1h2_70Gw6JZ_oYAqB7FvhTd0uggVP_z9uyDEE-M

• Won Outstanding Achievement Award at the Tagore International Film Festival 2020 for Enemy Within: Caught in the Crossfire: https://dailytimes.com.pk/575796/shazad-hameed-wins-outstanding-achievement-award-for-caught-in-the-crossfire/?fbclid=IwAR2yZvR31-7guUjRk_5v8x-h6jYb8LVO0bla5__Kb3sPvb--vbnlz1tBjBs

• Won the Silver World Award at the New York Festivals 2019 for Rise and Fall of Mujib in the History and Society Category.

• Won the Bronze World Award – New York Festivals 2019: Received the award for Nepal’s Child Brides in the Community Portraits Category: https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/456435-documentary-filmmaker-shehzad-hameed-wins-big-at-ny-festivals-2019

• Won the Best Feature Documentary Category award at the Canada International Film Festival 2019 for Caught in the Crossfire: https://images.dawn.com/news/1182060

• Won the Silver World Award at the New York Festivals 2017: for Undercover Asia: Kasur’s Lost Children, an investigation into Pakistan’s biggest child abuse scandal. https://images.dawn.com/news/1177502

• Won the Gold World Award at the New York Festivals 2016: for Flight Of The Falcons in the Community Portrait category http://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/123992-Shehzad-Hameeds-Flight-of-the-Falconswins-Best-Documentary-Award

• Prince of Asturias Award 2014: First Pakistani to receive Spain’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Fulbright Program, from the King of Spain, Prince Felipe VI held in Asturias, Spain: https://www.brecorder.com/2014/10/29/202239/

• MediaCorp Feature Story Of The Year Award 2016 – Kasur’s Lost Children wins at the MediaCorp News Award held in Singapore: https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/138640-Shehzad-Hameeds-documentary-wins-Feature-Story-of-the-Year-award

• J William Fulbright Scholarship Award - Fully funded merit-based Fulbright Masters scholarship 2012-2014 Cohort at New York University: http://pakusalumninetwork.com/tag/new-york-university/

• Best Documentary Award – Indiana Film Festival 2014 in the short documentary competition: http://www.hipinpakistan.com/news/1146645 for The Pakistan Four, a journey of four Pakistani Americans filmed across the United States.

• Nominated for Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award 2015 by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and UNICEF for documentary on girl’s education: Flight of The Falcons. http://images.dawn.com/news/1174106

• Nominated for New York Festivals – Human Concerns 2017: For the documentary Kasur’s Lost Children - http://gulfnews.com/life-style/celebrity/desi-news/shehzad-hameed-s-documentary-on-child-abuse-bags-ny-festival-nomination-1.1989547

• Nominated for 2015 Asia Pacific Child Rights Award among top ten TV documentaries by UNICEF and Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. http://images.dawn.com/news/1174106