WAHID IBN REZA
- Director, Executive Producer & Writer
Wahid is an award winning filmmaker from Bangladesh currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. His shortfilm What Am I Doing Here? has screened in various festivals across the globe and won multiple awards. His animated short film The Paranoid Cat was screened at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2016 at San Jose. Wahid has been working in production in the animation and VFX industry for the past 6 years in North America. He has worked on Emmy winning series Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones and Academy Award- winning/ nominated films such as Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Doctor Strange. He is currently working as Senior Production Supervisor at Annapurna Pictures.
shariful islam
- Production Designer & Concept Artist
Shariful Islam is a Cannes award winning artist. He was the first in the history of Bangladesh to win the Gold at the CANNES LIONS FILM FESTIVAL in 2016 for Product Design. He has also been the finalist at the CANNES LIONS three times. Additionally, Shariful has won several other local and international awards. He debuted as an Art Director for the feature film Bhubon Majhi, an Indo-Bangla production period. He also worked as concept artist on horror thriller film Debi. He is working as Production designer and concept artist for indie sci-fi movie Ommi and assistant Director for up coming Indo-Bangla production, Gondi. On Surviving 71, shariful is working as Production Designer, Concept, Storyboard and Background artist.
Rasheed Sharif Shoaib
- Music Director
Rasheed Sharif Shoaib is the lead guitarist of famous Bangla rock band Meghdal. He is also the owner and music composer of Studio Cowbell. In 2018 Shoaib debuted as playback singer on Swapnajaal. He is working as the music director for Surviving 71.
rajesh saha
- Sound Designer
Rajesh Saha is trained at Pune, India in Sound. He is a rising talent in sound design working alongside prominent sound designer Ripan Nath at his reputed studio Soundbox. He is working as the Sound Designer for this film.
navid f rahman
- Concept Artist, Illustrator and Web Designer
Navid is a concept writer and graphic novel artist from Bangladesh, currently residing in Toronto, Canada. He is currently working as UX/UI Designer at GetMeHired.co in Toronto. Besides his work, he indulges in writing and drawing his own graphic novels and participating in international comic book/ manga contests (Lucerne, Switzerland in 2018 and Tokyo, Japan in 2014/ 17). Although not an animator by profession, Navid has illustrated and animated full-length music videos for Canadian progressive metal outfit Sector 2.0. Navid's work on Surviving 71 includes the official logo, thematic posters, and the official website.
Stellar Boar
Curtis Rioux – Artist/Animator
Daniel Elliott – VFX/Compositing
Stellar Boar is a boutique animation studio based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founder/Director Curtis Rioux has over 10 years of experience in the entertainment industry, working on a variety of content from award-winning video game franchises to animation and directing for web, television, feature film and Netflix originals. He has worked with individuals like TBS show-runner Olan Rogers, animation legend Mike Judge and companies such as Disney, Loogaroo, Cartoon Conrad and BIG Studios. Using this career developed skill set Curtis established Stellar Boar in 2016. It is a group of in-house artists and animators, talented freelancers and experienced partners with a stellar dynamic that can be witnessed in the quality of its projects!