Country: UK
Year: 2001
Duration: 13'
The film charts one night with Romo, a mixed race boy, half English, half Pakistani, who lives in a run-down, all-white neighbourhood. Passing as white, he has to confront his identity when his skinhead gang target a young Asian boy.
"The main themes of my work are breaking the chains of oppression and life on the margins of «society». I know what it means to be alienated, I have experienced it personally, it is something that never leaves you. I want to give my work the precise sensation of what things are like outside respectable society" (Y. A. Khan).
Biography
film director
Yousaf Ali Khan
Yousaf Ali Khan studied cinema for two years at Bournemouth Film School and later followed courses on shooting with digital cameras. He began working as a documentary filmmaker, working on, and occasionally directing, various films including Angels of Mercy, a film commissioned by Channel Four about Keith Mann, a member of the Animal Liberation Front. Recently, he has been concentrating on fiction films, making Skin Deep and the short TV film Dogtribe.
FILMOGRAFIA
Long Weekend (doc, 2000), Angels of Mercy (cm, doc, 2001), Skin Deep (2002), Dogtribe (cm, 2002), The Battle of Claremont Rd. (mm, doc, 2002).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Yousaf Ali Khan.
Director of photography: David Katznelson.
Music: Andy Cowton.
Art director: Tom Wright.
Costume designer: Samantha F. Crockett.
Editor: Nick Fenton.
Sound: Matt Rogers.
Cast and characters: Darren Sheppard (Romo), Scarlett Leibenhals (Jameela), Mary Sheen (madre), John Hudson (Rutzie), George Russo (Skeggs), Sydney Golder (Ripley).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Andy Porter per APT Films, 225? Brecknock Road, London, N19 5AA, UK, tel. +44-20-72841695, fax +44-20-74821587, e-mail admin@aptfilms.com.
Co-produzione: Hi8us Productions.
Director of photography: David Katznelson.
Music: Andy Cowton.
Art director: Tom Wright.
Costume designer: Samantha F. Crockett.
Editor: Nick Fenton.
Sound: Matt Rogers.
Cast and characters: Darren Sheppard (Romo), Scarlett Leibenhals (Jameela), Mary Sheen (madre), John Hudson (Rutzie), George Russo (Skeggs), Sydney Golder (Ripley).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Andy Porter per APT Films, 225? Brecknock Road, London, N19 5AA, UK, tel. +44-20-72841695, fax +44-20-74821587, e-mail admin@aptfilms.com.
Co-produzione: Hi8us Productions.