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Rumman Zia (born 11 August 1980) is a Pakistani-Canadian entrepreneur, film critic/film maker and professor based in Karachi, Pakistan. He has made over half a dozen experimental short films in the realm of psychedelic expression. He teaches cinema at various local universities. Prominent among them are Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Aga Khan University. He also runs a not-for-profit film organization Cinéaste One.

Early Life
Zia was born in Karachi Pakistan on August 11th 1980. He immigrated to Canada in 2000 where he studied film making from Ryerson University.

Teaching & Public Speaking
Upon his return to Pakistan in 2012, Zia noticed a jarring absence of appropriate education related to film making which prompted him to establish Cinéaste One a not for profit arts and cultural organization based in Karachi with the mission statement of establishing an infrastructure to encourage and promote short film making in Pakistan.

His first workshop titled "Cinema 101" was conducted at Alliance Francaise de Karachi (AFK). Selected short films from workshop participants were selected for Cinéaste One Student Film Festival (COSFF). The first time filmmaker’s efforts were lauded and the affair was deemed a success which propelled COSFF into Karachi's staple annual student film festival.

In 2013, he joined Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture (IVS) as a visiting faculty professor where he designed and conducted courses on film literacy.

In 2014, he joined Agha Khan University also as a visiting faculty professor designing and conducting workshop on ethics. In March of the same year he was invited as a judge on AKU's film festival FFACT along with Tapu Javeri and Jami. In December 2014, Zia attended a conference on T2f Conference where he was a panelist along with Saima Zaidi and Zain Ahmed where he discussed the Role of audience in Creative Process. Zia spoke about criticism regarding it as a vital instrument in allowing artists to hone their concepts and inculcate more creativity. ‘Cinema 101’ workshops became a regular feature of Alliance Francaise de Karachi (AFK) cultural activities.