Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan journalist and filmmaker.
Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in Afghanistan for ten years and has a degree in journalism. Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects in Asia and the Arab states. He has worked with Jamie Doran in making ', Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines, and The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. Since 2002 he has lived in the United Kingdom and he is a winner of the Rory Peck Award, the Sony International Impact award and Amnesty International Media Award for his work.
His professional career began in Afghanistan, where he worked as a producer, reporter and presenter for a weekly television social program Shahr-e ma, Khana-e ma (Our City, Our Home) for ten years before moving to the United Kingdom and joining Clover Films in 2002. After successfully collaborating on the film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death, in the same year he won The Rory Peck Impact and Sony International Award for a film about the SAS in Afghanistan.
Since joining the Clover Films, where he works as director, reporter and cameraman as well as chief investigator for documentary films in Asia and Arab countries, he produced a total of six films and won several awards including the Alfred I DuPont Award 2011 (the âÂÂbroadcast PulitzerâÂÂ, presented by the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University); the History Makers Award 2011 for âÂÂBest Current Affairs DocumentaryâÂÂ; One World Media Award âÂÂBest Documentaryâ 2010; BAFTA nomination âÂÂBest Documentaryâ 2010; AIB (Association of International Broadcasters) Award âÂÂBest Current Affairs Documentaryâ 2010; AIB Award âÂÂBest Investigative Documentaryâ 2010; UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival); Winner of the Rory Peck and Sony International Impact awards(twice, 2002 and 2010) âÂÂBest Documentary Awardâ 2010; Grierson Award: Shortlisted for âÂÂBest Documentary on a Contemporary Issueâ 2010.
His most recent works include The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, a series of films for WNET/Wide Angle (women in war and peace); Behind Taliban Lines, Fighting for Osama, Opium Brides (aired January 3, 2012 from PBS Frontline), and Taliban Country (aired January 21, 2020 on PBS Frontline).