Ruhul Amin was born in Bangladesh.
His fascination with visual expiration springs form a childhood desire to explore and depict his enchantment with nature and
the warmth of a local tribal people ostracised by his own community. In the beginning of 80s he came to Britain with his parents. Within a year while he was at school
he made his first doc-drama €œPURBO LONDON€ since then he joined British film industry and worked as an
assistant. Later he attended National Film and Television School.
In 1986
he made his first feature film €œA KIND OF ENGLISH€ for Channel four Television. The film was shown in
the festival around the world and earned a critical acclaim. The film was compared with early work of De Sica and Satyajit
Ray.
Ruhul
is known for creating sensitive, understated, poetic films centred on the life of the Bengali community in the East End of
London.
