ESSENTIAL WORKER (Estonia, 2024, 4′)

Saturday, October 5, at 3 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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Direction: Areeba Naveed
Screenplay: David Selva
Production: Olga Beznosko
Photography: Yifan Wen
Editing: Farah Dewary
Sound Design: Victor Oliver
Cast: Andrea Villareal

Samira is a Mexican immigrant; she always talks on the phone with her mom telling her about her work. The reality is a little bit different though. National preview.

Areeba Naveed (Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer and filmmaker, currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2019, she graduated with honors from the Lahore National College of Arts. She wrote and directed two short films and a music video while graduating. Her thesis movie Until The Quiet Comes (2020) was selected and screened at 2021 Toronto IFFSA. After graduation, she received a scholarship from the Norwegian Embassy and made the LGBTQIA-themed short film A Coup (2020). The movie was applauded at four International Film Festivals and a semi-finalist at the Queer International Film Festival. The following year, she wrote and directed Khoj (The Search), a five-episode crime thriller web series. She then directed Fairy (2023), a short film focusing on the issue of child labour, which was produced for an NGO (Group Development Project). In 2023, she directed the movie About the Echoes We Carry.

Filmography: Until the Quiet Comes (s.f., 2020), A Coup (s.f., 2020), 1983 WAF Protest (s.f., 2020), Khoj (web series, 2023), My Body Your Choice? (s.f., 2022, doc), About the Echoes We Carry (s.f., 2023), Essential Worker (s.f., 2024).