Osama Chaudry

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In 2021 the Pakistan Government launched the National Amateur Short Film Festival to find their best emerging film makers and offer them a scholarship to study abroad, enhancing their knowledge and skills to bring back new ideas and ignite Pakistan’s film industry. The NASFF received more than 1100 entries from 72 universities across the country and while the students may have entered not knowing what to expect it was certainly an opportunity to be part of something special, possibly even transformational. Ultimately 14 students were chosen and a significant number of their winning films were documentaries, shining a light on a people and a country of which relatively little is known beyond their own borders and in doing so the students were able to share their culture with a wider world. Osama Chaudry was one of those winners and his film, Sasanity was an amusing take on teenage life in contemporary Pakistan, a country that is undergoing considerable change in the 21st century. Osama and his fellow winning film makers were given a 10 month scholarship to the New York Film Academy on the Gold Coast as their prize and it would appear that it has become a prize in more ways than one.

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