Abdullah Mohammad Saad was born in 1985 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He graduated with a degree in Education and Research from the University of Dhaka, before starting to make short films and founding his own production company. His first film, Live from Dhaka (2016), won Best Director and Best Actor prizes at the Singapore International Film Festival 2016, juried by Kawase Naomi, and has also been selected at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017, Festival Cinema Africano Asia e America Latina 2017, International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto 2017, and Jeonju International Film Festival 2018, among others.