Featured Image courtesy Pakistan Mission to UN (www.pffny.com)
A website on the upcoming Pakistani Film Festival in New York is up, offering some exciting clips from movies to be screened, and informing people how they can watch the top-rated productions.
The Dec. 3-4 festival, the first-ever in the United States, is being organized by the Pakistan Mission to the United Nations at Asia Society, New York.
On Friday, the organizers launched the website: www.pffny.com that features trailers of the movies to be screened during the two-day festival.
The festival will kick off with a red carpet reception on Dec 2 at the United Nations where Ambassadors and representatives accredited to the UN will be invited, as well as members of the Pakistani diaspora, media and film buffs.
The film gala is part of the continuing effort by the Pakistan Mission’s engagement to promote cultural diplomacy and to project the country’s soft power.
Pakistan Film Festival Poster
Photo: Pakistan Mission to the United Nations
November 2016
Pakistani celebrities from the film industry will be attending the Film Festival as well as the reception. These include Fahad Mustafa, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Mahira Khan, Mawra Hocane, Nabeel Qureshi, Saba Qamar, Wajahat Rauf, Yasir Hussain, Sheheryar Munawar, Asim Raza, Tooba Siddiqui, Adeel Hussain, Sanam Saeed, Humaima Malik, Jerjees Seja (JJ), Producer, Afia Serena Nathaniel and Mehreen Jabbar.
The films to be screened include two brand new ones, which will premiere in New York, Dobara Pher Say and Lahore Say Agay. Others will include Actor in law, Pakistan’s Oscar nomination, Mahe Meer, Oscar award winner Sharmeen Obaid’s animated film, 3 Bahadur, Dukhtar, Dance Kahani and Ho Mann Jahan.
“Young film makers in Pakistan are producing an incredibly diverse and entertaining array of movies which are contributing to the cultural renaissance underway in the country which is also reflected in the profusion of creative voices found today in Pakistan’s art, music, literature and the media,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said.
“We are bringing some of Pakistan’s movies to New York so that diplomats from 193 countries at the UN also have an opportunity to see what the country’s entertainment industry is producing,” she added.
Pakistan is a candidate for a seat on the Human Rights Council and its reception at the UN is also aimed at promoting its candidature.
