EXCLUSIVE: Emmy award-winning Indian producer Apoorva Bakshi (Delhi Crime) has boarded The Glassworker, Pakistan’s first ever Hayao Miyazaki-style animated feature, as an executive producer. …
picked up international rights after it was presented as a work-in-progress at Annecy International Animation Film Festival last year. The film is currently in post-production and scheduled for delivery in August.
Set in a location loosely inspired by Pakistan, the film revolves around a father and son who run the finest glass workshop in the country but find their lives upended by an approaching war in which they want no part. A long-time fan of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s work, Riaz raised funds on Kickstarter to develop the project, bringing in Khizer Riaz to produce and UK children’s writer Moya O’Shea to write the script. Along with Khizer and production designer Mariam Paracha, Usman set up Mano Animation Studios in Karachi and hired a team of young animators, more than half of whom are women.
“We are collaborating on a slate of projects which marks my first venture with Pakistani creators in the realm of animation, aiming to cultivate story engineering excellence in a format that has been long underserved in the region and is truly deserving of recognition.”family and our upcoming slate at Mano Animation Studios.
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