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When Abbasi was completing high school, he met documentarian brothers Brent and Craig Renaud, with whom he ended up working as a shooter. “They were doing a documentary in Chicago on gang violence,” he recalls.
Mar 15, 2024 · SXSW: Amman Abbasi's 'Yasmeen's Element' tackles the topic of girls' education through the winsome adventures of newcomer Eshal Fatima.
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Aug 22, 2021 · Hindsight filmmaker: In 'Udaan,' Amman Abbasi illuminates Pakistani culture and US immigration process. Aug 22, 2021 by Nicholas Price. In "Udaan," which means soar in Urdu, follows a young Pakistani woman, named Baneen, as she immigrates from Karachi, Pakistan to a small town in Arkansas to begin her first year of college.
Aug 18, 2021 · Learn how Amman Abbasi's documentary short "Udaan" captures the story of a young Pakistani woman who migrates to the American South for college... in the midst of the pandemic.
Feb 14, 2017 · Amman Abbasi's debut feature about a Little Rock kid suggests that 4:3 may be a vital storytelling device worth reconsidering. While working on a documentary about gang violence in Chicago, Abbasi became interested in exploring why adolescents get caught up in this world.
Apr 19, 2024 · One of those Sundance darlings (which opened the NEXT sidebar) was Amman Abbasi’s striking debut Dayveon. Recently acquired by FilmRise and set for an upcoming spring release, the film is a refreshingly non-sensational portrait of life in impoverished Arkansas.
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani-American writer-director, editor, and composer from Little Rock, Arkansas. Filmmaker Magazine listed him among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2016.
