An animated film from Pakistan is making its Academy Awards debut.
پاکستان کی ایک اینی میٹڈ فلم اکیڈمی ایوارڈز میں ڈیبیو کر رہی ہے۔
‘دی گلاس ورکر’ عزم کی ایک کوشش ہے، اور ہدایت کار عثمان ریاض نامزد ہونے پر بہت خوش ہیں۔
‘The Glassworker’ is an effort of determination, and director Usman Riaz is overjoyed to be nominated.
لندن: پاکستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے ایک اینیمیٹر اور کمپوزر عثمان ریاض نے اعلان کیا ہے کہ ان کی اینی میٹڈ فلم دی گلاس ورکر محبت کا پراجیکٹ ہے اور وہ اس بات پر خوش ہیں کہ یہ اکیڈمی ایوارڈز کے بہترین اینی میٹڈ فیچر کے لیے کوشاں ہے۔
ریاض نے اپنی فلم کے لندن پریمیئر کے دوران جیو نیوز کو بتایا، “اس نے پاکستانی اینیمیشن کو عالمی سطح پر لایا ہے اور ہم بہت پرجوش ہیں،” سوہو کے ایک سینما میں فلم کے جائزہ لینے والوں سمیت بہت سے لوگوں نے شرکت کی۔
Riaz claimed that creating “The Glassworker” for Geo Films took him ten years. This hand-drawn animation feature is groundbreaking. In order to produce Pakistan’s first animated feature, we at Mano Animation Studios had to start from scratch with the infrastructure.
ریاض نے دعویٰ کیا کہ جیو فلمز کے لیے ’’دی گلاس ورکر‘‘ بنانے میں انہیں دس سال لگے۔ پاکستان کا پہلا اینی میٹڈ فیچر تیار کرنے کے لیے، ہمیں منو اینیمیشن اسٹوڈیوز میں بنیادی ڈھانچے کے ساتھ شروع سے آغاز کرنا تھا۔
Directed and written by Khizer Riaz and co-writer Moya O’Shea, the film was produced by Manuel Cristobal (Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles) and centres on Vincent (Sacha Dhawan) and his father Tomas (Art Malik), whose tranquil existence as owners of a glasswork shop in a small town is upended by a conflict that sweeps down from the north.
When Vincent develops feelings for Alliz (Anjli Mohindra), a gifted violinist and the daughter of the recently assigned colonel (Tony Jayaward), the relationship between the father and son is put to the test. Where tradition would reject Vincent and Alliz’s love, their passion for one another and their creative souls are an insult to a harsher sensibility motivated by patriotism.
“This is Pakistan’s official Academy Awards selection,” Riaz told Geo News. In 2014, at the age of 23, I began this. We spent six years training individuals. Such a film has never been produced in Pakistan. At the time, the idea of hand-drawn animation was nonexistent. A great deal of interest in animation has resulted from it. The Donkey King is an excellent example of Pakistani computer-generated animation. Because hand-drawn animation involves drawings, it takes a long time.
After receiving an invitation to talk at the Ted in 2012, Riaz’s career took off. “I was chosen for the Ted Fellowship in 2012 and performed on a guitar for the audience,” he stated. They observed my distinctive style of guitar playing.