Catherine Masud is an award-winning filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in producing, directing, writing and editing, working in both documentary and fictional genres. An American citizen by birth, Catherine spent much of her adult life in Bangladesh, working together with her late husband and
filmmaking partner Tareque Masud. She produced, co-wrote, and edited the acclaimed feature THE CLAY BIRD (2002), which won the International Critics' Prize at Cannes. She also co-directed and edited the feature-length documentaries SONG OF FREEDOM and WORDS OF FREEDOM, both groundbreaking films in Bangladesh, which treated the 1971 Liberation War and its aftermath. Thematically many of her films address social justice issues such as child labor, forced incarceration, military repression and religious extremism. Due to the sensitivity of their subject matter, her films were often censored or banned in Bangladesh. But they went on to screen at major festivals, were theatrically released internationally, and broadcast on major networks in the US, Canada, the UK, France, and many other countries.