Historical Tag Archive

Film Festival, Live Action

“It Is an Infectious Product” Designing a 45-Year-Old Masterpiece: Muzaffar Ali on ‘Umrao Jaan’s’ Timeless Appeal

45 years on, Muzaffar Ali unpacks how a painter's eye, a poet's ear and Lucknow's Kathak heritage shaped the timeless femininity of his bio-epic.

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Live Action

Bailey Tom Bailey Blends Tension and Dark Humour in Revisionist Petticoat Duel Period Comedy ‘Satisfaction’

Bailey Tom Bailey walks DN through the witty showdown in his tale of an aristocratic duel fought between a society lady and her mentor over a trivial insult.

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Live Action, Premiere

Ali Sohail Jaura’s ‘Murder Tongue’ Highlights One Family’s Agony Amidst the Bloody Hatred of Operation Clean-up

Ali Sohail Jaura explains how centring his Karachi massacre drama on its female protagonist shifted the trajectory of his heartbreaking short for the better.

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Live Action

Rudá Santos’ ‘Vibrations’ Sees A Young Girl’s Surprise Survival Lead a Mother to Rebel Against Those in Power

Rudá Santos digs into the process of creating impactful characterisation by fine-tuning the dialogue delivery in his subversive film about female rebellion.

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Live Action

Maegan Houang Depicts the Genesis of America’s Asian Exploitation in Drama ‘Astonishing Little Feet’

Maegan Houang returns to DN and explains how she used confronting POV shots to challenge the viewer in her potent historical drama short.

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Live Action

BLOK Take Aim at the Warped Ideals of Honour in Darkly Comic Satirical Short ‘A Dishonourable Death’

BLOK chew over the technical decisions that manifested the heightened tone of their period short about bruised male pride escalating to fatal consequences.

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Live Action, Premiere

The Prime Minister’s Untimely Death Leads to an Acerbic Battle of Self-Interest in Isher Sahota’s ‘Goodnight Henry’

Isher Sahota explains how he struck the right tonal balance of comedy and skulduggery for his darkly comic period drama about self-interested backstabbing.

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Live Action, Premiere

Lia Williams’ Tender Prison Drama ‘Samovar’ Poetically Imagines the Defiant Survival of Raoul Wallenberg

Lia Williams tells DN how she drew from her experience as an actor when directing Angus Wright and Alex Lawther for her historical drama.

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Live Action

Wolfberg Recreate Moments of Historical Strife in Time-Hopping National Museum Film ‘Bright and Beautiful’

Wolfberg talk to DN about the technical challenges of recreating multiple major historical events for their epic museum film 'Bright and Beautiful'.

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Music Video

A Lesbian Romance is Brutally Cut Down by Sexual Bigotry in Baltazar’s Evocative Music Video ‘Lluvia’

The Unlimited Films team provide their respective production vantage points of Baltazar's visceral music video about the bigoted destruction of real love.

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