This screenshot from one of the films made by young filmmakers on Lyari shows children playing football on the streets of Lyari.
The documentary won the first prize at a screening of eight documentaries at the Beach Luxury hotel on Wednesday. The event, titled ‘Stories of Lyari’, was organised by ARM Child and Youth Welfare Organisation with support from the Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI).
Around 25 young film-makers of the Youth Café in Lyari identified eight stories of courage, audacity, self-esteem, positive attitude and legitimate income and told each story in a 10-minute documentary.
Hidden Diamonds is a documentary about two footballers. Sixteen-year-old Imran Baloch dreams of becoming an international footballer after playing the sport for five years.
The remaining seven documentaries were also shown.
The panel of judges included Faheem Siddiqui, Saher Baloch, Abdur Rauf and Nabeel Sheikh. The experts announced the result after judging the documentaries on the basis of their camera work, script, sound quality and editing.
“We are very pleased to see the efforts of everyone. We will be making several more documentaries on Lyari to portray its positive image and also participate in national and international film festivals,” said Shah.
KYI spokesperson Farhan Iqbal said that after the organisation identified the talent in Lyari, they requested a professional film-maker, Haya Fatima Iqbal, to train the young film-makers.
“The best thing about the film-makers is that they don’t hesitate to talk to anyone or leave until their questions are answered. Sometimes they can be a headache,” Haya joked.
Youth Café CEO Sohail Rahi said that the screenings meant to depict a positive outlook of Lyari. “The image showed in the media is the bad aspect of Lyari but the positive side should also be shown.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2014.
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These boz really deserve football field. The tyranny in Pakistan we took away the right of play from our children ... How many football fields we have in Karachi??? no more than 5 foe 20 million people. Shame on our govt for such state of affairs
Wow that would be very interesting to watch that documentary. Indeed Football is most passionate game on earth and imagine these guys bring the medal in world title how big things would be there. Will looking to watch that documentary