Eik Tha Kabootar
When a beloved prize pigeon from Pakistan winds up on the wrong side of the border and is arrested for espionage, his distraught owner makes a desperate plea to the prime minister of India for the pigeon’s release. Based on a true story, it is a humorous tale of a human-animal relationship that encourages critical thinking about man-made constructs of borders and nationalist identity. The film questions the absurdity of the act of protecting the integrity of these imaginary lines over human dignity and a bird’s freedom.
Film Makers
Zarrak Baloch
Zarrak Baloch is a rising Filmmaker from Balochistan, Pakistan. His work is inspired by Unfiltered stories based on real-life events. He enjoys working both on documentaries and fiction. He has directed many short films including Skyless, Natiq, and others, and co-directed feature documentary films, Born to serve, Under The Bridge, and Tokhamrazi. He owns a Production company called Reality Beyond Dreams. The company gives video production and marketing services to national and international clients.
Mahnoor Mahar
Mahnoor Mahar is a multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher based in Karachi, Pakistan and London, UK. She is the co-founder of Khamoshi Films a small scale production company based in Karachi that focuses on telling and promoting stories by women, trans and non-binary POC. She is currently an MA candidate at Goldsmiths University of London studying Gender, Media and Culture.
Nupur Agrawal
Nupur is an experienced solo traveller and a non-fiction filmmaker. A graduate from IIT Kharagpur, Nupur quit her job and solo-backpacked across India and Southeast Asia for 18 months, on a daily budget as low as $5. As part of a documentary film ‘Moving Upstream’, she hiked 400 km over a month along the Ganges. She also directed an experimental film, where she hitchhiked along India’s west-coast enquiring about the lives of truck drivers. She was the Associate Director & Executive Producer on ‘Borderlands’, a film about human stories from all of India’s borders. Supported by one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns, Borderlands has been featured at Cannes Film Market 2020 and screened at reputed festivals across 6 continents. Nupur is currently directing her debut feature-length documentary. Based in Mumbai, she often performs as a travel storyteller in house gigs.
Shivangi Jain
Shivangi Jain is an award-winning director and photographer who savours the autonomy of independent film-making. Having pursued her MA in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi and MFA in Cinema Direction from Boston University, Massachusetts; Shivangi thrives for her work to reflect cultured cinema. She has been associated with organizations such as J. Walter Thompson, Incredible India, Nestle, OKCupid, Realme and the likes. Shivangi’s directorial debut, The Thief, was screened at eleven international film festivals and her latest film, The Christmas Party has been winning awards on the festival circuit.
Nadir Shahzad Khan
Nadir has been working in films for the past 8 years. He has worked in Feature films, Ad films Documentaries, Music videos and short films as well. He won Pakistan’s first-ever 48-hour film challenge and bagged four awards and got the privilege of having his film played at Filmapalooza in Orlando, Florida. He’s also been nominated for a Lux style award for best music video director for ‘Baaghi by Sikanda ka Mandar’. His ad work for goto.com has won him a YouTube award for ‘Most watched Pakistani ad 2018’ and several of his other films have views in the millions. His recent edit works are ‘Letters from Death Row’ a Witness Documentary on Al Jazeera and ‘How She Moves’ an award-winning dance documentary.
Film Makers
Zarrak Baloch
Zarrak Baloch is a rising Filmmaker from Balochistan, Pakistan. His work is inspired by Unfiltered stories based on real-life events. He enjoys working both on documentaries and fiction. He has directed many short films including Skyless, Natiq, and others, and co-directed feature documentary films, Born to serve, Under The Bridge, and Tokhamrazi. He owns a Production company called Reality Beyond Dreams. The company gives video production and marketing services to national and international clients.
Mahnoor Mahar
Mahnoor Mahar is a multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher based in Karachi, Pakistan and London, UK. She is the co-founder of Khamoshi Films a small scale production company based in Karachi that focuses on telling and promoting stories by women, trans and non-binary POC. She is currently an MA candidate at Goldsmiths University of London studying Gender, Media and Culture.
Nupur Agrawal
Nupur is an experienced solo traveller and a non-fiction filmmaker. A graduate from IIT Kharagpur, Nupur quit her job and solo-backpacked across India and Southeast Asia for 18 months, on a daily budget as low as $5. As part of a documentary film ‘Moving Upstream’, she hiked 400 km over a month along the Ganges. She also directed an experimental film, where she hitchhiked along India’s west-coast enquiring about the lives of truck drivers. She was the Associate Director & Executive Producer on ‘Borderlands’, a film about human stories from all of India’s borders. Supported by one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns, Borderlands has been featured at Cannes Film Market 2020 and screened at reputed festivals across 6 continents. Nupur is currently directing her debut feature-length documentary. Based in Mumbai, she often performs as a travel storyteller in house gigs.
Shivangi Jain
Shivangi Jain is an award-winning director and photographer who savours the autonomy of independent film-making. Having pursued her MA in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi and MFA in Cinema Direction from Boston University, Massachusetts; Shivangi thrives for her work to reflect cultured cinema. She has been associated with organizations such as J. Walter Thompson, Incredible India, Nestle, OKCupid, Realme and the likes. Shivangi’s directorial debut, The Thief, was screened at eleven international film festivals and her latest film, The Christmas Party has been winning awards on the festival circuit.
Nadir Shahzad Khan
Nadir has been working in films for the past 8 years. He has worked in Feature films, Ad films Documentaries, Music videos and short films as well. He won Pakistan’s first-ever 48-hour film challenge and bagged four awards and got the privilege of having his film played at Filmapalooza in Orlando, Florida. He’s also been nominated for a Lux style award for best music video director for ‘Baaghi by Sikanda ka Mandar’. His ad work for goto.com has won him a YouTube award for ‘Most watched Pakistani ad 2018’ and several of his other films have views in the millions. His recent edit works are ‘Letters from Death Row’ a Witness Documentary on Al Jazeera and ‘How She Moves’ an award-winning dance documentary.
