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Azeem Khan

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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

My Social Web

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?ref=name&id=689936829

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Films I wish I had made

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

3 Idiots

I left the cinema during

2012...dull, plodding storyline

Directors I love

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

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

My desert island discs

Oasis, The Jam, Stereophonics, Motzart, Beethoven, Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bally Sagoo, Bob Marley

Books I have given my friends

Argos catalogue

My death row meal

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

The best thing I own

My British passport

More about me

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

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Joined

12/11/2004

Recent Bulletin Posts

28/1/2010   Experienced crew needed for exciting short thriller (London)
25/1/2010   White man and woman 35-45 needed for short psychological thriller (London). Lo-paid
16/1/2010   Experienced DOP with own HD kit needed for short thriller (London)
10/12/2009   Producer needed for feature film drama (London)
22/4/2009   Experienced producer for feature film drama needed (London)
3/4/2009   Jerry Bruckheimer saw Open Secrets!
24/3/2009   Male Semitic actor, 18-21, needed for feature film, Israel
24/3/2009   Producer needed for feature film drama set in Israel/Palestine (london)
19/3/2009   Q - how to upload a film on DVD to a PC hard drive?
20/2/2009   Experienced Line Producer needed for UK Film Council documentary (PAID)

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