ANEEL AHMAD’S AWARD-WINNING SHORTS SAVED FOR THE NATION

MovieScope Magazine 2008

Written by James MacGregor
Thursday, 03 January 2008

Two award-winning short films from Manchester-based director Aneel Ahmad are to be preserved for the nation by the British Film Institute. His documentary about the street children of Lahore in Pakistan, Waiting For Sunrise, is to be preserved in the BFI national archive along with the short fiction film Boot Polish, that the documentary inspired.
The archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles and around 625,000 television programmes. Ahmad’s films will join those which feature key British actors and the work of British directors, alongside significant material of every genre from silent newsreels to CinemaScope epics, home movies to avant-garde experiments and classic documentaries through to vintage television.
Aneel Ahmad was thrilled to learn that his films will soon form part of the British national archive: “This is a great honour for me, the best thing that has happened to me this year, because if I die tomorrow at least I know someone, somewhere will have access to at least two of my films.”
His comment seems almost jocular, but it is also a reflection of concerns surrounding the growing culture of street violence, including the area where he lives. The filmmaker grew up in Longsight, one of Mancheter’s toughest neighbourhoods. He almost lost a close friend recently, stabbed seven times in an apparently racially-motivated attack in which the victim lost.......

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