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Birla Public School student at THIMUN Qatar Northwestern Film Festival
He might be a school student still, but shows understanding and capabilities beyond his age. His movies, with social stigmas as subjects, have twice been nominated at film festivals at Qatar, Doha!
Mohammed Ali Faisal, a class 12 student at Birla Public School, who produced a documentary film on child labour in India titled The Human Capital, was recently nominated for at The THIMUN Qatar Northwestern Film Festival held annually in Doha, Qatar.
The THIMUN Qatar Northwestern Film Festival attracts young filmmakers from around the world, giving them a platform to create advocacy films on local or global issues.
Mohammed Ali’s film covers the issue of child labour and subsequent illiteracy thereby affecting the human capital.
Watch The Human Capital here.
“The major challenge I faced was depicting the vastness and intenseness of the issue I was trying to portray within 7-minute duration. Balancing my studies of my final high school year and the yearlong making of this movie was another difficulty,” said Faisal.
However, this isn’t Faisal’s first time at The THIMUN. In the year 2015, his film Sincerely Bahadur was also nominated for as many as four categories of awards, under best picture, best story, best cinematography, and best national picture. The film discussed the conditions construction workers work and live in.
Watch Sincerely Bahadur here.