Abdullah Shahid

i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in SUDAN. SUDAN barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more

@HadiaAhFa Hm?

@chadullah OPT expiration is scary

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Everything that happens to Kumail Nanjiani should be happening to me instead.

Kevin O'Leary and Jafar Panahi share the carpet at the 2026 #Oscars See every arrival: vanityfair.com/hollywood/phot…

Hello Academy. Can you address why you have said nothing about The Voice of Hind Rajab lead actor Motaz Malhees who isn’t allowed to enter the US to attend the Oscars because of the travel ban for Palestinians. You nominated his film yet he can’t even attend to celebrate it. A statement would be appreciated.

CDA has sent demolition notices to multiple katchi abadis in Islamabad (including allama iqbal & rimsha colony) home to 1000s of working class Christian families, ordering them to vacate in 1-2 days. This is despite a recent hearing in the FCC where previous stay orders against summary demolitions were maintained. These are unlawful actions in violation of SC/FCC orders & a humanitarian catastrophe in the making, amid a worsening inflationary crisis in the country. We need an urgent intervention to prevent 1000s of families being made homeless overnight. All this can be avoided with some careful planning in accordance with existing resettlement policies. Hope reason & basic humanity will prevail.

A decade after this case was first brought to the court, Islamabad has failed to develop a katchi abadi policy and the city is now seeing some of the most cruel demolitions in its history. This must stop now.

Abdullah's very first short(ish) films are now available! I really like how he takes slice of life ideas and brings them to life. Watch, enjoy, send me your hot takes. PS: my goal in life is to persuade him to make the kind of movies I want to see. #SisterPrivileges

this shit was insane

Watch them and three other amazing films here! begin.watch

Hot Soup was the film I made at the end of my first year in my NYU Grad program. I was trying to do something very simple, cheap and effective and really enjoyed working on a very small scale with just two actors in one location for a short and sweet 8 minute thing. Some stills:

Hey guys, two of my films are streaming now on Begin in Pakistan: First one is Catfish (35 min!), comedy! drama! thriller! And the second one is Hot Soup (my 1st-year NYU film, 8 min <3), romance! drama! arranged marriage date! Watch on Begin + trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=_tiOtz…

>be me, James Cameron, 19 years old in the swinging '60s >stuck in boring Canadian high school, but brain's a volcano of sci-fi fever dreams >one night, bam - vivid nightmare/vision of a bioluminescent forest teeming with flying lizards and ethereal creatures, glowing like God's own rave party >wake up sweating, grab pencil and paper, sketch the shit out of it: towering trees linked like neural networks, blue-skinned aliens with cat-like grace, the works >stash the drawings in a drawer, thinking "someday this will be epic," but life's a grind - drop out of college, drive trucks for cash while doodling more alien worlds on napkins >fast forward to '70s, still a nobody, pour heart into short films like Xenogenesis: bioluminescent planets, sentient trees, crippled heroes mind-linking with aliens - sound familiar? >scrape together $20k from dentist investors (lol), make a demo reel that lands me gigs in Hollywood, but the big dream simmers on the back burner >'80s hit, direct Aliens and The Abyss - dive deep into underwater lore, invent new tech for liquid metal effects, but Pandora's still whispering in my ear >early '90s, after Terminator 2 blows minds with CGI T-1000, think "tech's almost there for my blue cat people" >1994-95, write an 80-page "scriptment" for Project 880 (Avatar's code name): paraplegic marine jacked into alien body, corporate greed vs. indigenous harmony, floating mountains, the full eco-allegory mashup of Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves in space >but CGI sucks ass—looks like PS1 graphics, uncanny valley hell—shelve it, do Titanic instead, which overruns to $200M+ and nearly bankrupts Fox, but wins Oscars and prints money >2000s roll in, tech evolves: Gollum in LOTR, King Kong's mocap—time to resurrect the beast >2005, pitch Fox on Avatar, they're scarred from Titanic PTSD, say "prove it won't suck our wallets dry" >they cough up $10M (about $15M today) for a proof-of-concept reel—build custom mocap rigs, early Na'vi designs with creepy long necks and V-backs, shoot a 3-4 min forest sequence with biolum glow and tense Na'vi-human stare-down >it's rough, like high-end video game cutscene, but shows photoreal potential—Fox execs watch, jaws drop, but still hesitate >October 2006, rights briefly lapse, shop it to Disney—Fox panics, exercises first refusal, greenlights with $237M budget (real talk: closer to $280-310M with overruns, plus $150M marketing, total gamble ~$500M) >challenges stack like Hallelujah Mountains: invent Fusion 3D cameras from scratch, simulcam for real-time CGI directing, massive 10k sq ft server farm chewing 17GB per CGI minute >hire linguists for Na'vi language, actors train in Hawaiian jungles for authenticity, enforce vegan set cuz eco-vibes—traffic light outside producer's office stays yellow for months ("we're fucked" mode) >studio freaks over costs, Cameron defers fees, pours own millions back in, brings in UK financiers to split risk—nearly bails to indie route >plagiarism lawsuits hit: artists claim he stole ideas—Cameron pulls out teen sketches and '70s scripts in court, wins big, proves it's his soul-child from day one >2007-09 production hell: Weta Digital's 900 artists slave away, reshoots galore, Cameron bets career—"if this flops, I'm done" >offer Matt Damon 10% profits for lead—bro turns it down, misses $250M+ payday when Avatar drops Dec 2009 and shatters records: $2.9B gross, redefines 3D cinema, spawns MCU-level VFX revolution >but wait, sequels? Cameron plans four more from jump, writes 'em all at once—improbable af, delays for tech upgrades (underwater mocap for Way of Water) >2010s: build Lightstorm empire, dive to Mariana Trench for inspo, fight endless delays from script polishes and pandemics >Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) drops after 13 years—$350M+ budget, critics sneer "blue people again?" but hauls $2.3B, proves franchise immortal

That parasite one is insane

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🚨🚨🚨 SHO Shukar Ullah Khan of Wazirabad Thana Sadar just refused to file an FIR. He said that the parents of the girl came and gave a thumbprint stating they did not want any inquiry. However, the parents later said they were misled. The girl’s father is blind, and her mother was not in her senses at the time. Apart from that, both of them are unable to read and write They both want an inquiry. Police are trying to spoil the case. @OfficialDPRPP

Look at this old man who wants justice for his daughter. A blind old man whose thumbprint was fraudulently taken on a Razi Nama. He is begging for justice, but his son and my elder brother were sent back home by Thana Sadar staff after they refused to file an FIR. Please raise your voice for Aminah @OfficialDPRPP

The thing that always feels bad about pakistan defeats is you can always isolate the multiple key moments where we did something really tragic and bad that cost us the game. a dropped catch, a bad stumping, a missed run out, an unnecessary break of momentum.