Wonderful Emotional short film. I saw this film at the Manchester film festival.
Boot Polish is one of those wonderful emotional films that genuinely hits your soul. On reading other comments I also feel that this film should win the British Academy Award for best short film in 2008, on the fact that the film was far superior than other shorts and there is genuine talent within the Boot Polish team.
There's a lot of comments on the ethnicity of the director (he is British Born) but I was not really concerned that the film was Indian/Bollywood or shot abroad. Its a really good short film. The film certainly educated me about the life of a shoe shine boy and it also had historical intelligence i.e (costumes, fantastic music, dance) from that Period in of time in India. Boot Polish also had a message. We all can dream and escape. Isn't that the most important thing about life?
It is also a real shame that this film was not given the run it deserved at the UK film festivals this year. Shame on you!!!! The industry should of given the film Cinema time and also to screen it to a wider mainstream English audience.
Film-making is about diversity and Boot Polish certainly would of appealed to a wider audience. But i guess internal politics within the Film Industry that has stopped Boot Polish from getting screened within mainstream festivals in UK. And terrible negligent selection process by festival panel members.
When you're viewing a short film your concerns are on how the filmmaker has presented their work and on how talented they are.
Boot Polish is of a high quality. It is well constructed and there are some touching and emotional moments in the film so be warned.
Boot Polish is a well crafted film and Ahmad is extremely talented to pull off a film given he had a budget of 18k. Shooting abroad is always a challenge and I also agree that he should now concentrate on his first feature film
This film director is one to watch out for. Good luck and well done Im a fan...... I look forward in viewing more of your films in the future.
I now understand why Ahmad has such a following I really do! Well done!
10- 10 Its emotional So be warned.
Boot Polish is one of those wonderful emotional films that genuinely hits your soul. On reading other comments I also feel that this film should win the British Academy Award for best short film in 2008, on the fact that the film was far superior than other shorts and there is genuine talent within the Boot Polish team.
There's a lot of comments on the ethnicity of the director (he is British Born) but I was not really concerned that the film was Indian/Bollywood or shot abroad. Its a really good short film. The film certainly educated me about the life of a shoe shine boy and it also had historical intelligence i.e (costumes, fantastic music, dance) from that Period in of time in India. Boot Polish also had a message. We all can dream and escape. Isn't that the most important thing about life?
It is also a real shame that this film was not given the run it deserved at the UK film festivals this year. Shame on you!!!! The industry should of given the film Cinema time and also to screen it to a wider mainstream English audience.
Film-making is about diversity and Boot Polish certainly would of appealed to a wider audience. But i guess internal politics within the Film Industry that has stopped Boot Polish from getting screened within mainstream festivals in UK. And terrible negligent selection process by festival panel members.
When you're viewing a short film your concerns are on how the filmmaker has presented their work and on how talented they are.
Boot Polish is of a high quality. It is well constructed and there are some touching and emotional moments in the film so be warned.
Boot Polish is a well crafted film and Ahmad is extremely talented to pull off a film given he had a budget of 18k. Shooting abroad is always a challenge and I also agree that he should now concentrate on his first feature film
This film director is one to watch out for. Good luck and well done Im a fan...... I look forward in viewing more of your films in the future.
I now understand why Ahmad has such a following I really do! Well done!
10- 10 Its emotional So be warned.