Reclaiming Lollywood, One Screening at a Time
Monday, May 31st, 2010Tuesday, 8th June 2010 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join us at T2F for an evening of screenings and conversation on film with Ahmer Naqvi
A year ago, Ahmer Naqvi decided to leave the megalomaniac world of the Pakistani media, determined to find something better to say, using another medium – film. For the past year, he has been making short films as a Masters student. He now comes to T2F to talk about his own work, its relationship to Pakistan as well as the state of cinema within the country. He also brings with him vague pretensions of beginning a movement of young Pakistani artists – sick of obsessing about the country’s politics and its image abroad – but eager to explore the dramatic, breathless reality which is life in Pakistan. Join us for a screening of Ahmer’s works accompanied by a wide ranging discussion on everything from Maula Jutt to Jean-Luc Godard, and whatever comes in between.
Date: Tuesday, 8th June, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Minimum Donation: Anything you like. Please support our vision of intellectual poverty alleviation by donating generously.
Venue: PeaceNiche | T2F
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Seats are limited and will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. No reservations.
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Join Acumen Fund for a conversation on ’social investing’ and why balancing financial returns with social returns results in more sustainable impact. Also hear from Acumen’s current class of Fellows, Sarah Dimson and Muhammad Zahoor, who are working with social enterprises in Pakistan.
Born in Lucknow, India in 1948, Mahmood Jamal came to Britain from Pakistan in 1967. A progressive poet, film-maker and translator, his works have been published in the London Magazine and broadcast on BBC Radio. He has performed at leading poetry venues in London and around the UK and has several volumes of poetry to his name, including Silence Inside a Gun’s Mouth and Sugar-Coated Pill. He also edited the Penguin Book of Modern Urdu Poetry and his latest collection, Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, was published in 2009. 
Marguerite H. Sullivan is director of the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy. She has had extensive experience as a journalist and a communications practitioner both in the U.S. and overseas. She has done extensive communications training worldwide and wrote “A Responsible Press Office: An Insider’s Guide,” an award-winning book that has been translated into more than two dozen languages. Previously she was executive director of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.
