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Ahmed is producing through his Left Handed Films with Pulse Films’ Thomas Benski and Bennett McGhee, along with Michael Peay. BBC Films, Cinereach, SFFILM Invest, Vice Studios, and RYOT Films have also joined the project as financiers.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist star won an Emmy for his role in HBO’s The Night Of and went on to star in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers and Venom, where he played an evil genius billionaire. As Riz MC, Ahmed emerged in the London music scene as a rap battle champion, going on to write and perform both as a solo artist and with his band, Swet Shop Boys.
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Ahmed truly uses being a brown person in Hollywood to his advantage. “Being a South Asian in the industry is both a gift and a curse because it gives you the ability to subvert minorities which are not visible or have been marginalised,” he said in a recent interview. “It’s nice when people see me on screen and say, ‘Oh, we didn’t expect to see a brown person in that role’.”
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Tariq’s Ghosts of Sugar Land won the non-fiction short film award at Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. His first feature, These Birds Walk, premiered at SXSW and is distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
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