Junayed Alavi is a 24 years old Independent filmmaker from West Bengal, India. Previously, he has written, directed and produced many short films. He is also a podcast host of Bengal’s only live Hollywood podcast show called “Late Night Show with Alavi”, where Hollywood A-listers join and share their journey to inspire the next generation of artists.
Till now, many hollywood celebs like Avengers Endgame actress Lexi Rabe, Back to the future actor Jeffrey Weissman, Narnia and The Martian Music Composer Harry Gregson-Williams, Wrong Turn Director Rob Schmidt, Director of Disney’s Black Beauty Ashley Avis, Oscar nominated Make-up Artist of Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Spider-man far from home Donald Mowat and many more. Junayed met Peter on a podcast episode.
They were in touch since 2021. Peter liked one of his short films Eventually. Junayed planned a short film after watching Marvel Studios’ Werewolf by Night, directed by Michael Giacchino, co-written by Peter. After watching some glimpses of Junayed’s short film Hunger, Peter wished to executive produce it. Hunger is a fictional horror story based on The great Bengal famine of 1770.
His horror short film Hunger has been selected for First Cut Youth film festival, Ireland 2023 and Lift-Off Global Network festival 2023. Hunger is a monster horror short film written and directed by Junayed Alavi, starring Kalyan Goswami, Subinoy Ganguly, Sayanta Dhar and Bulbul Ahmed.
