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Hailed as a groundbreaking Pakistani feminist western, My Pure Land tells the tale of Nazo Dharejo, the most powerful force of a female trio fighting to protect the family home as her father and brother languish in jail.
The BBC is adapting crime novel You Don't Know Me with The Crown writer Tom Edge and Mrs Wilson producer Snowed-In Productions...It will be directed by Sarmad Masud, who directed season two of Sky buddy cop drama Bulletproof and Channel 4 youth drama Ackley Bridge.
This is a delightful comedy adventure, a sort of bilingual Bollywood Blues Brothers by way of Nottingham.
The U.K. has picked My Pure Land, an Urdu-language feature from first-time director Sarmad Masud, as its submission for consideration for the 2018 Oscars in the foreign-language film category. This marks the first time Britain has submitted an Urdu-language title to be its Oscar hopeful.
Masud also wrote and directed Adha Cup, the first Urdu-language drama commissioned by British broadcaster Channel 4, which was later developed into a six-part series at the BBC.
After graduating, Masud's big break was 2009's Adha Cup, a black-and-white comedy drama in Urdu funded by Channel 4's Coming Up scheme. Following this he met Nikesh Shukla and together they wrote Masud's next short, Two Dosas, which was funded by Film London. It won the London Calling Jury Award in 2014, as well as awards at other festivals including Aspen and London Short Film Festival
it's easy to see why Masud's film won the London Calling Plus 'Jury Award' in 2014 and the 'Best Comedy' Short Film at the 24th Aspen Shortsfest
That it even got made and is complete, 16 years after he graduated in television and film design at the Hull School of Art and Design, is still something of a revelation to him. Everything that could have gone wrong with the shoot, he says, did. The majority of funds were raised from family and friends and he had a six-week filming schedule to get it all wrapped up.
