Azeem Khan

Director, Writer

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My Details

 

Male
Great Britain , London

Current Work Details

What I do

Writer/Producer/Director

Company

Azko Films Ltd

Website

http://www.azkofilms.com

Where I work

I run my own company or organisation

Technical Skills

DV filming and directing

Resources / Expertise

Writing and directing

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

1985-1989

Manchester Metropolitan University,
BA (Hons) Design for Communication Media (Film and Television Production), 2:1

1995-1995

National Film & Television School Short Course Unit,
Independent Producers Course, Sponsored by Channel 4 Equal Opportunities Scheme

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Films I wish I had made

The White Ribbon; A Prophet; Pather Panchali; Bicycle Thieves; Kandahar; Donnie Darko; Kingdom of Heaven; The Good The Bad and The Ugly; Chinatown; Battleship Potempkin; About A Boy; Seven Samurei; Breathless; Psycho; Mother India; 21 Grams; Blow Up

I cried watching

Defence of the Realm...ending was really sad

I left the cinema during

Inception...incomprehesible plot left me gagging that I'd spent £9 on a ticket for this pseudo-intellectual drivel

Directors I love

Michael Haneke, Akira Kurosawa, Ridley Scott, Satyajit Ray, De Sica, Jean Luc Godard, Danny Boyle, Alfred Hitchcock, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ken Loach, Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Bresson, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Abbas Kiarostami

Actors I admire

Saeed Jaffrey, Valmike Rampersad, Tom Cruise, Danny Dyer, Richard Burton, Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, Helena Bonham Carter, Ewan McGregor, Sharon Stone, Shah Rukh Khan, Brad Pitt, Paul Newman, Hema Mangoo, Amir Khan

Writers I respect

Rumi, Bukhari, Shakespeare, William Golding, VS Naipaul, Graham Greene, Charlotte Bronte, Balzac, Iqbal, Ernest Hemingway, JD Salinger, Norman Mailer, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, Edward Said

My desert island discs

Oasis, Plan B, Linkin Park, Joy Division, The Jam, Stereophonics, Motzart, Beethoven, Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bally Sagoo, Bob Marley, Eminem

Books I have given my friends

Argos catalogue

My death row meal

Chicken jalfrezi, daal, tandoori naan, salad, rasmali, a massive jug of mango lassi and Marlboro Red

The best thing I own

My imagination

More about me

I have an open and enquiring mind, and am willing to take risks when making a film

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