Omar Ahmed is a UK-based film scholar with a PhD in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester (2019), UK. He is also a teacher, writer and international curator of South Asian Cinema. He has published widely on Indian Cinema. He co-curates the annual ‘Not Just Bollywood’ season for HOME, Manchester while recent film curation projects have included Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 2021), The Barbican (2024) and The Leeds International Film Festival (2024).
