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Anam Abbas

Anam Abbas
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Company
Other Memory Media, Documentary Association of Pakistan, South Asia Doc Collective
Race/Ethnicity
Kashmiri and Punjabi
Professions
Cinematographer, Cultural Strategist, Director, Producer
Location
Rawalpindi
Languages
Urdu, English
Available for Hire
Yes
Travel for Work
International
Experience Level
Emerging
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Biography

Anam Abbas is a Pakistani/Canadian filmmaker producing work through her company Other Memory Media in Canada and Pakistan. 

As a producer and DOP her first feature 'Showgirls of Pakistan', winner of the Best Pitch Award at the 2016 Hotdocs Forum, premiered in competition at IDFA 2020 and was released globally by VICE in 2021.

Anam's first feature documentary as a Director, 'This Stained Dawn' (Dagh Dagh Ujala), follows the feminist activists who organize the 'Aurat March' in Pakistan. It premiered in International Competition at the 2021Sheffield Doc Fest and has won awards in Canada, USA and India.

Her first fiction feature, 'In Flames', directed by Zarrar Kahn, had it's World Premiere at Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, won the Golden Yusr for Best Picture at the Red Sea FF, the International Newcomer Award at Mannheim-Heidelberg FF, the best First Feature CSA and was Pakistan’s Entry for Best International Picture for the 2024 Academy Awards.

Anam is also one of the founding members of the Documentary Association of

Pakistan (DAP).

 

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Active Projects

'Untitled Sindhu Project'- In early production- Looking for Producer, Fundraising- Feature Documentary- 

Th film is a chronological and upstream investigation of the causes and aftereffects of the devastating floods that have displaced 30 million people in Pakistan and signal the end of Sindh’s historic eco-socialist sufi culture as well.

 

 

'Frontera'- Hybrid Documentary- In Development

'Border crossing stories told from a feminist lens spanning Kashmir, Syria and beyond, using archive, animation and self-tapes'.

Looking for collaborators, financing and your border crossing story!

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Films

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Video Links







https://youtu.be/lUmK2Y2rtFk, https://youtu.be/KyUqmJQfL20, https://youtu.be/T_Ija4ar7No

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