The Department of Television, Film and Photography was launched at a time when a burgeoning television industry was desperately looking for a trained workforce to serve the industry and the moribund film industry was searching for skilled and creative filmmakers to inject energies for its revitalization. This Department aims to fill up the void created by the lack of academic training in television journalism, television production, filmmaking, and film criticism. Its vision is to create and disseminate knowledge about the cultural industries such as cinema and television and the role of popular culture in shaping people’s mind. The Department stands committed to work on the development of a public taste and cultural politics conducive to nourishing a secular democratic Bangladesh.