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07.07.2023 - 18:47 / deadline.com
For writer-director Naqqash Khalid, questions are more important than answers and this premise is something the academic-turned-filmmaker explores heavily in his debut film In Camera, which recently premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The bold film, which opened to positive reviews after it screened in the fest’s Proxima section last week, is the first feature to come out of the 2019 iFeatures slate, the low-budget Creative UK scheme from the UK’s BFI Film Fund and BBC Film.
In Camera is a satirical drama that follows Aden (played by Nabhaan Rizwan), an actor who is hoping to break into the UK film industry but faces a series of challenges that make him question his desire to be accepted by a system that wasn’t built to include him. After a cycle of nightmarish auditions and multiple rejections, he finally lands a job role-playing as the dead son of a grieving mother (Josie Walker) going through therapy.
The film, which was shot across six weeks in 2022 in Manchester, UK, is produced by former BFI exec Mary Burke, via her new Public Dreams banner, and Juliette Larthe of Prettybird. Sarah Mosses’ Together Films is handling world sales on the title.
Deadline sat down with Khalid to talk about his unusual approach to his first feature, collaborating with Rizwan and why he refrained from making a didactic and political film, preferring instead a more subtle approach to complicated themes that causes the audience to ask questions and reflect on life in a highly performative society.
DEADLINE: How did you conceive the idea for this film?
NAQQASH KHALID: In a weird way, it feels like everything I’ve ever done, such as my shorts Parts and Stock, have been in response to a post-Brexit world and 2016
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Guy Lodge Film Critic The thing Aden likes about acting, he tells someone who cares enough to ask, is “how organized it is.” You know where you stand, quite literally, because someone tells you; you’re given things to say, and told how to say them. Order and certainty aren’t typically seen as benefits of the thespian calling, and even Aden doesn’t sound entirely convinced of his own words. But then Aden — played, in a performance of brilliant, diamantine versatility, by Nabhaan Rizwan — is never entirely convinced of himself, period, when he hasn’t a script to follow or a character to inhabit. A simultaneously playful and savagely pointed satire from first-time feature director Naqqash Khalid, “In Camera” traces how its young British-Asian protagonist’s sense of identity is progressively diminished by the cynicism and tokenism of the industry he’s trying to crack — though as it turns out, when you lose yourself entirely, all is not lost.
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