LATA AHMED is a Writer, Artist, Producer, film maker, activist and development worker who used a range of aesthetic styles to explore the social, economical, political and cultural realities.

Lata Ahmed is the Executive Director of Green Village, a nonprofit organization works with child rights, indigenous communities and environment issues.

She directs both feature and documentary films. Her skill as a multidisciplinary artist led her to use arts, crafts, music and film as the language for her social activism.

Lata Ahmed has received FIPRESCI award in 2018 for Sohagir Goyna.

Her feature film PALAI PALAI is a film for children, with participation of children, screened in March 2000. All players of this film are children. The main focus of the film is crisis of urban children, such as, class difference, expression of views, participation in decision-making, right of play, etc. She also directed documentary films namely Nonstop Ball, Childhood, etc. She also worked and documented on Professor Abdur Razzaq, first National Professor of Bangladesh; Abdul Matin, known as Language Movement Matin; eminent Philosopher Professor Sardar Fazlul Karim; Philosopher Khaled Chowdhury and so on.

She involves with film society movement in Bangladesh.

She has written a book “First Reading, First Writing” for Mro children, an indigenous communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts to educate them in their mother language.