Wikipedia:Asif Akbar (film director)

Asif Akbar is the first Bangladeshi-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He began his career in Hollywood and his first directorial full-length feature film was "My Foreign Desh" which was released in 2007 and premiered at the New York International Film and Video Festival in December 2008.

Early life
Asif Akbar born in Bangladesh. Akbar's favorite hobby as a child with new found technology in the early 90's was making his own movies using a home handy cam and editing tape-to- tape video. Akbar continued to direct and produce independent films and TV productions.

Achievements
Akbar's documentary film Top Priority: The Terror Within premiered at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on May 16, 2012.

In his interview, he claimed that his film The Commando good enough and successful as a commercial film.