Andalib Rubayat

Andalib Rubayat  is currently working as a senior lecturer in the Media Studies and Journalism Department at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh. Before joining ULAB, he worked as an adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Jahangirnagar University. 
He completed his MA at the New York Film Academy (Los Angeles) and has over 10 years of experience working in media productions. His short film "Deceased" was screened at the renowned Warner Bros. Studio. Later, it was screened at 12 international film festivals. His COVID film "Life Was Beautiful" has been screened at 17 international film festivals and won 14 best film awards in different categories. A case video he worked on as director of photography, "The Impossipuzzle Poster," became a finalist at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

MA in Film and Media Production, New York Film Academy (Los Angeles)

BBA in Accounting & Information Systems, University of Dhaka

Film Studies, Film Adaptation, Auteurism and Authorship

Awards:

Short Film: Life was Beautiful, 2021 (Director)

• Best Short Film: Cine Paris Film Festival, France, 2025
• Best Covid-19 Film: Vesuvio International Movie Awards, Italy, 2024
• Star of All Seasons: Gangtok International Film Festival, Sikkim, 2024
• Best Covid-19 Film: Rajgir International Film Festival, Nalanda, 2024
• Best Covid-19 Film: Asian Talent International Film Festival 2025, Ahmednagar, India, 2025
• Best COVID-19 Film: Nawada International Film Festival 6th Season, Bihar, 2024
• Best Short Film: 195 Countries Film Festival 6th season, Patna, 2022
• Best Experimental Film: Gangtok International Film Festival, Sikkim, 2021
• Best Short Film: GAO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, BANGLADESH, 2022
• Best Short Film: Druk International Film Festival, Bhutan, 2021
• Best COVID-19 Film: Gully International Film Festival, Bihar, 2021
• Best Special Lockdown Film: REELS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Maharashtra, India, 2022
• Best Covid-19 Film: iDEAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Sillod, Maharashtra, India, 2021

IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33052044/?ref_=ttfc_ov

Short Film: The Game, 2021 (Director of Photography)

• Best Short Film : ROSHANI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, india, 2021

Short Film: Hell Inc. 2016 (Director of Photography)
IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7107936/?ref_=ttfc_ov

• Best Fantasy Short (Jury Prize): Los Angeles VOD Film Festival, California, USA, 2019
• Nominee Best Comedy Short: Rock the Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, 2021

• Leveraging Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Bangladeshi Bird Species, Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence: IJCACI 2024 - Volume 1.