Having studied English at the University of Salford, Khalid cut his filmmaking teeth with 2016 short Parts, made in 12 hours with a crew found on Craigslist and then 2018’s Stock, part of Sky Arts’ Art 50 project, which featured artists responding to post-Brexit Britain and saw the lead actor’s visa run out midway through the shoot.įor iFeatures, he made an unconventional submission. “It’s like putting together a puzzle all of the pieces feel very lived-in.” “It consumed my thoughts for a long time,” he says. Khalid had been developing it for four years before he was selected in 2019. The feature is the first from the 2019 iFeatures slate to make it to screen, with the low-budget Creative UK programme still on hiatus having been paused during the pandemic. “There’s a more palatable version of this film I’m just not interested in making that,” says Khalid. The film plays with ideas of reality and identity. In Camera follows Aden, a young actor stuck in a cycle of nightmarish auditions, who takes it upon himself to find a new part to play. Source: Screen International/Zeeshan KhalidĪ combination of support from Creative UK’s low-budget feature scheme iFeatures and UK funders BBC Film and the BFI Film Fund allowed Naqqash Khalid to be as bold as he wished with his debut feature In Camera, which premieres today (July 1) in the Proxima section at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
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