Hakiem Waleed Ahmed is a filmmaker specialising in colour grading with interest in writing and directing. He has colour-graded three short films and directed two short films. One was a realist drama called Afsana, an award-winning short about a bride getting second thoughts on her wedding day. As well as this he has experience in other fields, such as production design and production sound.

Hakiem is from Birmingham and studied Filmmaking at the Northern Film School. Coming from a rich cultural background, he takes great interest in films revolving around his culture as well films about other cultures and peoples. He has a background in fine art, and is proficient in graphics software, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as editing software such as Davinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.