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Irshad Ashraf

Director

Great Britain , London

Visits in the last week

2

Total of visits

4781

Current Work Details

What I do

Director/ Producer

Company

RED FLAG FILMS

Website

www.irshad.tv

Where I work

I run my own company or organisation

Technical Skills

YES

Resources / Expertise

Media studies degree ha ha ha

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Double Life of Veronique, Three Colours Blue, Thin Red Line...get the picture? Trees Lounge, Big Lebowski, Memories of Underdevelopment, La Haine, Plain Soleil, Dazed and Confused, Vanishing Point, Khamosh Paani, Waking Life, Battle of Algiers, Thin Red Line, Jaws, Kes, Rumble Fish, First Blood, Pierrot Le Fou, Destiny, Tokyo Drifter, Bicycle Thief, Lost Highway, Rockers, Deewaar, Jason and The Argonauts, Why We Fight, Beat Street, The Ten Commandments, The Omen,

I cried watching

Death in Gaza - Its a documentary about children in Gaza being indoctrinated in to hatred and ends up with the Director of the documentary getting killed by the army. What a Heartbreaking film, it Freaked me out because I'd applied to work on it. Arna's Children - a doc about a Jewish freedom fighter who set up a children's theatre in Jenin - the doc is shot over 10 years and shows the children grow up and end up shot / killed / blown up by the army. Another absolute heartbreaker. Bridges of Madison County - Love stories make me cry. Rabbit Proof Fence - its a true story about Australian government's ethnic cleansing programme that ran until 1970 (!!!). It made me really fking angry and then I cried.

I left the cinema during

Pokemon 2 - but came back to pick the kids up. One From the Heart - I was tripping. Farenheit 911. I still havn't seen it all the way through. It just makes me really really really mad. Police Academy 3 - Citizens on Patrol. I lied to my mum to get out of the house so i could watch it, but got scared and made sure I was back on time.

Directors I love

Beat Takeshi, Adam Curtis, John Casavettes, Richard Linklater, Clint Eastwood, Ramesh Sippy, Terence Malick, Irshad Ashraf, Michael Mann, Alain Resnais, Gillo Pontecorvo, Coen Bros, Kieslowski.

Actors I admire

Liv Tyler, Julie Christy

My desert island discs

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden, Public Enemy - Nation of Millions, Marvin Gaye - Whats going on, Led Zeppelin 1,2,3,4, Stone Roses - Second Coming, Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death, Tom Waits, Sounds of the Bulgar, Qari Abdul Basset,Camaron, Jeff Buckley - Grace, Smashing Pumpkins -Siamese Dream, Rachmaninov, Holst - Oriental Suite

Books I have given my friends

Judy Blume - Forever, Biography of Fidel Castro, Biography of Che Guevara, Biography of Liv Tyler, Biography of Alexander Dubcek, Biography of Mohammed, Biography of Mr T, Feature Film Making at Used Car Prices, American Tabloid - James Ellroy, Liv Tyler annual 1998, Liv Tyler Annual 1999, Liv Tyler Annual 2000, You shall know our velocity - Dave Eggers, American Pastoral -Phillip Roth, Don Delillo - Underworld, Leo The African - Amin Mahlouf, Ornament of The World - Maria Menocal.

My death row meal

Liv Tyler

The best thing I own

shadi kiri atoll in the south pacific

More about me

Transcendental cinema moment : The Thin Red Line directed by Terence Malick: The narrator remembers being on his dad's farm in the Mid West and it flashes back to him as a child trying to catch the dry grass flying through the air. www.myspace.com/irshad

Shooting People stuff

Joined

05/11/02

Subscribed to

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My Work & Credits

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    St Rick of Austin

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Production company
    Channel 4 / World of Wonder
    Category
    Documentary
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    BRITAIN IN BLOOM

    Format
    HD
    Production company
    COMMUNITY CHANNEL
    Category
    Documentary
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    how to dump your mates

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    CELADOR
    Category
    Documentary
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    Director's Debut

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    BBC1 / Maverick
    Category
    Documentary
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    Desi DNA

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    BBC2
    Category
    Documentary
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    WHY DO PEOPLE BUY ART?

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Production company
    Channel 4 / World of Wonder
    Category
    Documentary
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    The Muslim Jesus

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    ITV
    Category
    Documentary
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    Taxi Nights

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    ITV
    Category
    Documentary
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    KUBANSKAYA

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Category
    Documentary
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    my reel

    Category
    Documentary