For the first time in my life, i have just printed my name under "Director and Editor" - on my first full length film. For the first time in my life, i put together a project from scratch - no one on my tail to get things done. For the first time in my life, i found something i could do REALLY REALLY well. I can do a lot of things good. I dont think iv ever been REALLY good at something, exceptionally good. I think iv just found out what i wanna do with the rest of my life.
"GDP 6.4% ?" - a 45 min documentary on poverty in Karachi. But thats not the point. The point is not poverty in Karachi. The point is the fact that we see this poverty every day of our lives - and have become immune to it. We see it... but we do not See it. It does not register to us anymore. Just because we no longer see it, does not mean its not there.
See it - start looking - its all around you.
Today was the first showing of the documentary. 200 people. Afterwards, people came to me with tears in their eyes. People came to me just to shake my hand. 200 people in a hall not one getting bored. My teacher, a man I respect and whose opinion mattered immensely to me, was speachless. I got an offer to show it on WorldCall's cable network. I got a job offer from ARY. I think iv finally figured it out... I think I know.
Today, for the first time in my life, I felt I could do something.
I am SO stoked right now.
"GDP 6.4% ?" - a 45 min documentary on poverty in Karachi. But thats not the point. The point is not poverty in Karachi. The point is the fact that we see this poverty every day of our lives - and have become immune to it. We see it... but we do not See it. It does not register to us anymore. Just because we no longer see it, does not mean its not there.
See it - start looking - its all around you.
Today was the first showing of the documentary. 200 people. Afterwards, people came to me with tears in their eyes. People came to me just to shake my hand. 200 people in a hall not one getting bored. My teacher, a man I respect and whose opinion mattered immensely to me, was speachless. I got an offer to show it on WorldCall's cable network. I got a job offer from ARY. I think iv finally figured it out... I think I know.
Today, for the first time in my life, I felt I could do something.
I am SO stoked right now.
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1 Comments:
i know im so late posting this...u know how ive always teased u about not doing anything rite...but that day...when i sat next to you in the dark hall watching the documentary, the documentary my closest fren made...and i turned to see ur profile, that gaurded look that you wore...that haunting image that u reran in ur head a million times...i want u to know that i have never been proud of anybody as i was of u that day!
thank you for giving me that moment...thank you for letting me share that moment with you, sitting beside you, holding ur hand, and feeling it with u!..
...i think u know who
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