Served as a National Film Awards Jury member in 2004 and as an International Jury member for competition films in the Black Night International Film Festival , Tallinn, Estonia in December 2004.and in the 9th Dhaka International Film Festival in January 2006. More recently, he directed an acclaimed series of short fiction films titled Vanishing Daughters, UskaAana and Teesra Raasta.

EARIY-LIFE

• Came to Delhi from Bareilly to pursue his interests in arts, literature, theatre, and later cinema. Masters in Hindi literature, joined the AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, on the invitation of its founder Chairperson, the late AJ Kidwai, and came close to the world-renowned documentary filmmaker James Beveridge.
• Assisted Anand Patwardhan, a well-known documentary filmmaker on three films, In Memory of Friends, In the Name of God', and Father, Son and Holy War, made first independent documentary film, My Name is Sister, on nurses in Delhi.
• Won TOW more National Awards for co-producing documentaries on land rights, directed by Sehjo Singh. Directed Zinda Itihaas, a serial on living cultural legends like B.C. Sanyal, Zohra Sehgal and Fida Husain Narsi. Short film, 'of life and love', for permanent display at the International Museum of Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Worked as the India director (with Sehjo Singh) for Orcades, a series of socio-political stories on French Television in 1989. Mad Mundo, a television series, supported by Arte, on the subject of migration of IT professionals in June 2000 and an hour-long documentary on Indian call centres, made for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Served as Executive Producer of Sikandar (2009), a Hindi feature film produced by the Big Pictures. Dream of a Dark Night on a fellowship From Prasar Bharati and Public Service Broadcasting Trust. He followed that up in 2009 with Harvest of Grief, an investigative film about of the agrarian crisis in Punjab and its impact on agricultural families. It was produced by the NGO Ekatra. Jamal received the I&B ministry's Visioning India PSBT 2010 fellowship to make a documentary film on the life and culture of Old Delhi. The film, titled 'Dil Ki Basti Mein, He recently completed a series of 10 short films promoting heritage conservation for the National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities.
• His work has been screened in more than 200 film festivals around the world. In 2010, he served on the feature film jury of the Roshd International Film Festival in Iran, and at Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2011.
• 2012 to 2013 he was the Director City pulse institute of film and television 2013 to 2014 he was an chief Adviser & Creative Head in Doordarshan Directorate-General for the national broadcaster's Urdu channel. During his tenure he handled the commissioning and quality control of 3000 hours of programming.
• He is a member of the English books selection committee of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation Kolkata.