BIO:
Award-winning Film Director and Writer Rowshon Ara Nipa was born on 5th February 1974 in Sirajgonj, Bangladesh. Nipa is a fighter and revolutionary who has committed her life to struggle alongside her community. Currently She is working with a Non -Profit , Drum-Desis Rising Up & Moving as a Bronx Community & Housing Justice Organizer as well as filmmaker. Coming from a society in Bangladesh where working class women were restricted in the types of professions they could choose, Nipa faced the familial and social challenges of an oppressive and patriarchal society. While confronting these challenges, she struggled to forge her own path and be true to herself and her commitments. In 2004, she won an international Emmy for her journalistic work with unprivileged, working class children and traveled abroad for the first time. In 2017 Nipa came to the US again as an Extra Ordinary immigrant . Besides Organizing She is doing film making and writing based on her community organizing experiences which are the reflections of the truly working class. This year of 2024 She got her first success in the USA by making the short film "ALL Alone” which achieved Berlin Indie Film festival as a best screenwriter and Roshani International Film festival as the best women Empowered Director award .With these six international festival selections around the world.
In 2022 She proclaimed from City Councilor Amanda Farias dist-18 NY and assembly member Karines Reyes Dist-87 for the work of development and sustainability of the leadership of working class and immigrant women.

In her journalist and film career she achieved few more notable recognition nationally and internationally :

Anannay Top Ten Achievers, Bangladesh- 2005
Meena Media Award, Unicef Bangladesh - 2005
BACSAS Award, Bangladesh -2008

Festival Screening and recognition

For “All Alone” - Short Film - 2024
Berlin Indie Film Festival, Germany - 2024
London Cult international Film Festival,
LA underground Film Festival -2024
London Cult Film Festival -2024
LWIFF/ Lonely WOLF Film Festival -2024
CARAVAN International Film Festival -2024
The Film Collective Short Film Festival-2024
Asian Talent International Film Festival -2024
Amrao Pari -(We can) Documentary -2004
International Emmy -2004, USA
Tepantorer Mathey - Travel show -2005
Unesco Open Frame festival- 2005, India
International peace Festival -2005 France
Mohua Shundori - Feature Film
Golden Triangle International film Festival - 2015 , Urisha/Odisha , India
JANANI - Short Fiction
SAARC Film Festival -2015


She produced more than 50 Documentaries, fictions, dramas, short films and Documentaries.
Currently she is working on a feature film project “ Rodela “ based on a true story.