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Our purpose is to create awareness and to elevate your knowledge about the craft of filmmaking in Pakistan by showcasing the unsung heroes of our film industry.

11/09/2023
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"Travel back in time with 'My Secret Time Machine' - a heartwarming short film about the power of memories and photographs. Revisit cherished moments and red...

26/01/2023

Teaser for the short film
"My Secret Time Machine"
Releasing soon!




Everyone, at least once in their life, arrives at a point where the world and their passion are at an impasse, to move f...
20/06/2022

Everyone, at least once in their life, arrives at a point where the world and their passion are at an impasse, to move forward in this world, one sacrifices the passion little by little until they become just another cog in the machine, just another brick in the wall !

This story is about a person who faces creative exploitation, something that is synonymous with freelancing in Pakistan.

Releasing this on World Freelance day to hightight these issues


Everyone, at least once in their life, arrives at a point where the world and their passion are at an impasse, to move forward in this world, one sacrifices ...

15/06/2022

Everyone, at least once in their life, arrives at a point where the world and their passion are at an impasse, to move forward in this world, one sacrifices the passion little by little until they become just another cog in the machine, just another brick in the wall !

This story is about a person who faces creative exploitation, something that is synonymous with freelancing in Pakistan.

Releasing this on World to hightight these issues

Special Thanks to Humail Rajpoot for allowing us to use his beautiful rendition of
Niyat-e-Shauq by Madam Noor Jehan



Production by
Filmcraftpk
https://www.instagram.com/filmcraftpk/

A film by farooq jamal

I would like to thank my cooperative cast and crew






Alejandro González Iñárritu 1963 - presentMexican director and producer whose movies—which often featured interconnected...
24/02/2021

Alejandro González Iñárritu
1963 - present

Mexican director and producer whose movies—which often featured interconnected stories and a nonlinear narrative—placed him at the forefront of the Mexican film renaissance in the early 21st century. González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director.
He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene or best director award at Cannes (2006), the second one being Carlos Reygadas in 2012.
His six feature films, 'Amores Perros' (2000), '21 Grams' (2003), 'Babel' (2006), 'Biutiful' (2010), 'Birdman' (2014) and 'The Revenant' (2015), have gained critical acclaim world-wide including two Academy Award nominations.
One of three people to win back-to-back Oscars for Best Director (the others are: John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz). Iñárritu is the first to do so since Manckiewicz in 1950 and 51.

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David Fincher 1962 - PresentOne of cinema's most dazzling visual stylists, whose dark view of human nature often oversha...
21/02/2021

David Fincher 1962 - Present

One of cinema's most dazzling visual stylists, whose dark view of human nature often overshadowed the stark images of his films, director David Fincher established himself in the world of commercials and music videos before becoming one of Hollywood's most respected talents. After an inauspicious debut with the critically maligned "Alien 3" (1992), Fincher made his mark with the unforgettable, "Se7en" (1995), a stunningly dark and morose thriller that contained perhaps one of the most gut-wrenching endings of modern filmmaking. With his bona fides set in stone, Fincher went on to direct another challenging - and brutally violent - film, "Fight Club" (1999), which allowed the director a full palette in which to display his stylish gifts. He occasionally settled back into standard thriller territory, as he did with "Panic Room" (2002), or saw an otherwise excellent film fail at the box office like with "Zodiac" (2007), but later emerged as a perennial Oscar contender with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2009) and "The Social Network" (2010), both of which were radical departures from his previous gritty and violent films. By the time he directed the highly anticipated adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), there was no disputing Fincher's ink black vision and refusal to believe in mankind's better nature marked him as a unique and refreshingly honest filmmaker worthy of considerable praise. Every Film that he's made is considered a masterpiece :

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This is the first step in film production. This phase of the production process includes fleshing out the story idea wri...
14/12/2020

This is the first step in film production. This phase of the production process includes fleshing out the story idea writing a draft of the script and figuring out the financial logistics of the project. Depending on the type of film you're making and who can get involved, development can last anywhere from a few months to a few years.

1.project producer selects a story, which may come from a book, play, another film, true story, video game, fairy tale, comic book, graphic novel, or an original idea, etc

2.After identifying a theme or underlying theme producer works with writers to prepare a synopsis and produce a step outline, which breaks the story down into one-paragraph scenes the concentrate on dramatic elements

3.A treatment, a description of the story, its mood, and characters. it has little dialogue. often contains drawings that help visualize key points. it is also known as a Scriptment when more elaborate

4.The screenwriter writes a screenplay over a period of several months. The screenwriter may rewrite it several times to improve dramatization, clarity, structure, characters, dialogue, and overall style.

5.The producer and screenwriter present it to potential financiers. They will also pitch the film to actors and directors to attach them to the project. Many projects fail to move beyond this stage and enter so-called development hell. If a pitch succeeds, a film receives a "green light", meaning someone offers financial backing: typically a major film studio, film council, or independent investor. The parties involved negotiating a deal and sign contracts.

Film Production is created in 4 phases: development, pre-production, production, and post-production. Each phase has a d...
11/12/2020

Film Production is created in 4 phases: development, pre-production, production, and post-production. Each phase has a different purpose, with the overarching goal to get to the next one. Each stage varies in length, and different roles suit different stages.
The 4 phases are:

1.Development: The first stage in which the ideas for the film are created, rights to books/plays are bought, etc., and the screenplay is written. Financing for the project has to be sought and obtained.

2.Pre-production: Arrangements and preparations are made for the shoot, such as hiring cast and film crew, selecting locations, and constructing sets.

3.Production: The raw footage and other elements for the film are recorded during the film shoot.

4.Post-production: The images, sound, and visual effects of the recorded film are edited and combined into a finished product.

Francis Ford Coppola 1962–presentOne of America's most erratic, energetic and controversial filmmakers, Francis Ford Cop...
08/12/2020

Francis Ford Coppola 1962–present

One of America's most erratic, energetic and controversial filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola enjoyed stunning triumphs and endured monumental setbacks before resurrecting himself, Phoenix-like, to begin the process all over again.

Known primarily for his successful "Godfather" trilogy - "The Godfather" (1972), "The Godfather, Part II" (1974) and "The Godfather, Part III" (1990) - Coppola was the most celebrated of the Young Turks - a group of filmmakers who emerged in the early 1970s that included George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and William Friedkin. Unbridled by his ambition and enthusiasm, and perhaps obsessive to the point of being manic, Coppola infused a fervent creative energy into his early work, culminating in "Apocalypse Now" (1979), a journey into his own heart of darkness that irrevocably altered his career and may have even caused permanent psychological damage.

Renowned for his generosity with other filmmakers, Coppola served as a fierce promoter of others' films, championing the work of Wim Wenders, Paul Schrader and Akira Kurosawa, while playing an important part in the restoration of Abel Gance's classic silent film, "Napoleon" (1927). The quality of his directing fell off throughout the 1980s and 1990s, however, and the big studios - remembering his colossal box-office failures - became leery of backing his more personal projects, preferring instead to employ him as a hired gun on the likes of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "The Rainmaker" (1997), which helped the director pay off his enormous debts. Nonetheless, Coppola - having been responsible for directing three of the greatest films in cinema history - remained forever a legend

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Luis Buñuel 1900 - 1983 a Spanish naturalized Mexican, a filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain.When Buñuel d...
07/12/2020

Luis Buñuel 1900 - 1983

a Spanish naturalized Mexican, a filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain.

When Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him

"an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later"

His first picture, Un Chien Andalou—made in the silent era—is still viewed regularly throughout the world and retains its power to shock the viewer, and his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire—made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work "the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality...scandalous and subversive".

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Akira Kurosawa 1936–1993Akira Kurosawa is unquestionably the best known Japanese filmmaker in the West. This can perhaps...
05/12/2020

Akira Kurosawa 1936–1993

Akira Kurosawa is unquestionably the best known Japanese filmmaker in the West. This can perhaps be best explained by the fact that he is not so much a Japanese or a Western filmmaker, but that he is a "modern" filmmaker. Like postwar Japan itself, he combines the ancient traditions with a distinctly modern, Western twist.

Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production.[149] He was a gifted screenwriter and worked closely with his co-writers from the film's development onward to ensure a high-quality script, which he considered the firm foundation of a good film. He frequently served as editor of his own films. His team, known as the "Kurosawa-gumi" (Kurosawa group)

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Satyajit Ray 1921-1992Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world re...
01/12/2020

Satyajit Ray 1921-1992

Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. As a director Ray was noted for his humanism, his versatility, and his detailed control over his films and their music. He was one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

his subsequent films becoming more and more concentrated in time, with an emphasis on psychology rather than conventional narrative. He also consciously avoided repeating himself. As a result, his films span an unusually wide gamut of mood, milieu, period, and genre, with comedies, tragedies, romances, musicals, and detective stories treating all classes of Bengali society from the mid-19th to the late 20th century. Most of Ray’s characters are, however, of average ability and talents—unlike the subjects of his documentary films, which include Rabindranath Tagore (1961) and The Inner Eye (1972). It was the inner struggle and corruption of the conscience-stricken person that fascinated Ray; his films primarily concern thought and feeling, rather than action and plot.

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Bangladesh IIFaiz Ahmed Faiz - 1911-1984This is how my sorrow became visible:its dust, piling up for years in my heart,f...
26/11/2020

Bangladesh II
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - 1911-1984

This is how my sorrow became visible:
its dust, piling up for years in my heart,
finally reached my eyes,

the bitterness now so clear that
I had to listen when my friends
told me to wash my eyes with blood.

Everything at once was tangled in blood—
each face, each idol, red everywhere.
Blood swept over the sun, washing away its gold.

The moon erupted with blood, its silver extinguished.
The sky promised a morning of blood,
and the night wept only blood.

The trees hardened into crimson pillars.
All flowers filled their eyes with blood.
And every glance was an arrow,

each pierced image blood. This blood
—a river crying out for martyrs—
flows on in longing. And in sorrow, in rage, in love.

Let it flow. Should it be dammed up,
there will only be hatred cloaked in colors of death.
Don't let this happen, my friends,

bring all my tears back instead,
a flood to purify my dust-filled eyes,
to was this blood forever from my eyes.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36417007

A critically acclaimed 1958 Pakistani film, boasting a "curious collaboration" with India, makes a rare appearance at last month's Cannes festival.

Vittorio De Sica 1902-1974He was an Italian film director and actor who was a major figure in the Italian Neorealist mov...
26/11/2020

Vittorio De Sica 1902-1974

He was an Italian film director and actor who was a major figure in the Italian Neorealist movement.

Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: 'Sciuscià' and 'Bicycle Thieves' (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il Giardino Dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award.

Vittorio De Sica films contain much of the aching sadness of life, and much of the beauty, too. It is one of the small mysteries of cinema how De Sica, a lightweight actor (and very handsome man) accustomed to playing sentimental leads, should go on to become one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers.

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Martin Scorsese American filmmaker known for his harsh, often violent depictions of American culture. From the 1970s Sco...
17/11/2020

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker known for his harsh, often violent depictions of American culture. From the 1970s Scorsese created a body of work that was ambitious, bold, and brilliant. But even his most acclaimed films are demanding, sometimes unpleasantly intense dramas that have enjoyed relatively little commercial success. Thus, Scorsese bears the not totally undeserved reputation as a cult director who works with big budgets and Hollywood’s most desirable stars. In terms of artistry, he was perhaps the most significant American director of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Robert Bresson 1901 - 1999A singular, iconoclastic artist and philosopher, Bresson illuminates the history of cinema wit...
16/11/2020

Robert Bresson 1901 - 1999

A singular, iconoclastic artist and philosopher, Bresson illuminates the history of cinema with a spiritual yet socially incisive body of work.
Bresson is among the most highly regarded filmmakers of all time.

Bresson is often referred to as a patron saint of cinema, not only for the strong Catholic themes found throughout his oeuvre, but also for his notable contributions to the art of film. His style can be detected through his use of sound, associating selected sounds with images or characters; paring dramatic form to its essentials by the spare use of music; and through his infamous 'actor-model' methods of directing his almost exclusively non-professional actors.

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Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007He wrote and directed more than 60 films and 170 theatrical productions, and authored over a h...
15/11/2020

Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

He wrote and directed more than 60 films and 170 theatrical productions, and authored over a hundred books and articles.He is noted for his versatile camerawork and for his fragmented narrative style, which contribute to his bleak depiction of human loneliness, vulnerability and torment.
Throughout Bergman’s many works, one finds variations on a central theme: dysfunctional families, blood-sucking failed artists all become manifestations of our collective inability to communicate with each other.

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Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky 1932 - 1986Tarkovsky’s films were notable for their striking visual images, their symbolic,...
14/11/2020

Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky 1932 - 1986

Tarkovsky’s films were notable for their striking visual images, their symbolic, visionary tone, and their paucity of conventional plot and dramatic structure. His work is often described as poetic. His films, full of metaphysical themes and beautiful long takes, are visual poetry; they're emotionally resounding, and film theorists, critics, and students of film have spent decades trying to decode the poetic messages believed to be in his visual motifs.

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Stanley Kubrick 1928 - 1999An American motion-picture director and writer whose films are characterized by his dramatic ...
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Stanley Kubrick 1928 - 1999

An American motion-picture director and writer whose films are characterized by his dramatic visual style, meticulous attention to detail, and a detached, often ironic or pessimistic perspective. An expatriate, Kubrick was nearly as well known for his reclusive lifestyle in the English countryside as for his painstaking approach to researching, writing, photographing, and editing his infrequent but always much-debated films.

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Alfred Hitchcock  1899-1980English-born American motion-picture director whose suspenseful films and television programs...
12/11/2020

Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980

English-born American motion-picture director whose suspenseful films and television programs won immense popularity and critical acclaim over a long and tremendously productive career. His films are marked by a macabre sense of humour and a somewhat bleak view of the human condition.
Some of his notable works include

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