Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Now is your chance to shine, Pakistani filmmakers! The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee is asking filmmakers to send in their films by September 2, 5 p.m. PST, so that they can be considered for the International Feature Film Award at the 95th Academy Awards.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a filmmaker who has won two Oscars and an Emmy, is in charge of the Oscar Committee this year. Other members of the committee are musician Ali Sethi, author and scriptwriter Omar Shahid Hamid, film critic Rafay Mahmood, actor, producer, and director Samina Ahmad, and TV and film producer Jerjees Seja, screenwriter and director Bee Gul, fashion designer Rizwan Beyg, cinematographer Mo Azmi.
The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee has already sent in Zinda Bhaag in 2013, Dukhtar in 2014, MOOR in 2015, Mah-e-Mir in 2016, Saawan in 2017, Cake in 2018, Lal Kabootar in 2019, and Zindagi Tamasha in 2020 to represent the best of Pakistani cinema and be considered for an award in the International Feature Film category.
One film will be chosen by the committee to represent Pakistan at the award. An international film is a long movie (more than 40 minutes) that was made outside of the United States of America and its territories and has more than 50% of its dialogue in a language other than English. Full-length animated and documentary films are allowed.
Here are the requirements to be eligible:
The film chosen by the country must be first shown in the country of origin between January 1, 2022, and November 30, 2022, and for at least seven days in a row in a commercial movie theater. Both the producer and the theater must make money from the showing.
During its qualifying theatrical release, the film must be advertised and used in a way that is normal and common for theatrical feature distribution. The movie didn’t need to come out in the United States.
Films that are shown or distributed outside of a theater, in any version, before their qualifying theatrical release will not be considered for an Academy Award. Nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution includes, but is not limited to, broadcast and cable television, PPV/VOD/DVD distribution, airline in-flight distribution, and internet transmission.
Both the original recording of the dialogue track and the finished movie must have more than 50% of the dialogue in a language other than English. English subtitles must be correct and easy to read.
