Our story
A small studio with a big mission .
Motion X Academy began with one editor frustrated that great craft was locked behind language, geography, and price.
In 2020, Zakir Husayn was editing for Voice of Dhaka — building documentary cuts that traveled across continents. Between deadlines he started recording short tutorials for friends who kept asking "how did you do that cut?"
Those videos turned into a YouTube channel. The channel turned into a WhatsApp group. The group turned into a waitlist — and the waitlist became our first batch.
Today we run a working studio alongside the mentorship program. The studio funds the school. The school feeds the studio. Both feed the craft.
847+
Students
4
Courses
300+
Projects delivered
6+
Years editing
Founding principle
“Talent is everywhere. Access isn't. We built this to fix the second half of that sentence.”
— Zakir Husayn, Founder
The journey
Cut by cut.
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2020
The first lesson
Zakir records his first tutorial — how he cut a Voice of Dhaka segment — on a borrowed laptop.
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2021
Batch 01 launches
12 students from a WhatsApp waitlist become the first cohort of the structured mentorship.
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2023
Studio opens in Dhaka
A permanent space with a color suite, sound booth and edit bays. Studio work starts funding scholarships.
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2025
Students working worldwide
Half-scholarship slots in every batch; students working with brands from Dhaka to Toronto.
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2026
Next chapter
A new platform, more mentorship slots, and the next generation of editors.
The pillars
What we stand for.
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Craft · The cut
Better to ship one masterpiece than ten mediocre cuts. We teach taste, not shortcuts.
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Mentorship · Action
One critique on your real work beats ten hours of theory. Every student gets direct review time.
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Access · Open lens
Half-scholarship slots in every batch. Talent shouldn't depend on a wallet.
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Practice · Daily reps
You don't become an editor by watching. You become one by cutting — every single day.
The team
Meet the editors.
The people who teach, review your work, and ship client projects every week.
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