Labib Faisal is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and the founder of FOLOK. He began studying journalism at Jagannath University in Dhaka and moved to Türkiye with a Türkiye Scholarship, where he completed a bachelor's degree in journalism at Selçuk University in Konya (2016–2020) and then a master's degree with thesis in the same department at the university's Institute of Social Sciences (2023). There he studied new media, newspaper and magazine production, film direction and filmmaking.
While still a student he worked as a reporter and video editor for KonTV, one of Konya's popular local TV channels, as a reporter and layout designer for the Selçuk İletişim student newspaper, and founded his own magazine, Çizgili Defter, as editor-in-chief. He was head editor at Emre Tanıtım, a Konya agency making ads for local TV, and video editor at Erka Medya, an agency working on commercials, TV advertising and documentaries. In Istanbul he edited for Klok Film, an advertising agency that made government projects and big-budget corporate commercials for clients such as Koç Holding.
Alongside his studies he presented academic papers at symposiums of RTÜK, Türkiye's Radio and Television Supreme Council, including a paper on the history of Turkish film, and was selected to present his work at Tashkent University in Uzbekistan. He also worked as a research assistant at Türkiye's Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) on the Global ICT Alliance project.
Back in Bangladesh his first assignment for TİKA was the Cezeri Lab project. Since then he has worked on TİKA projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, South Africa and Ghana, and made the project's overview film that is shown at Teknofest and Cezeri Fest in Türkiye. As managing director he leads the creative direction of every FOLOK project and still works on set as director and director of photography, and in the edit suite. He speaks Bangla, English and Turkish fluently.
