An animated short depicting the stories of women during the India-Pakistan partition of 1947
Sultana's Dream
(Services)
(Services)
Animation
Animation
,
,
Sound
Sound
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,
Art Direction
Art Direction
(Client)
(Client)
Project Dastaan
Project Dastaan
(Year)
(Year)
2022
2022
(Information)
(Information)
We worked with Project Dastaan to co-produce, direct and animate Sultana's Dream, based on a screenplay by Saadia Gardezi. This short film was an episode from an anthology called Lost Migrations, produced by Project Dastaan and funded in large part by the National Geographic Society. Project Dastaan is a collective who seek to document the stories of survivors of the India-Pakistan partition of 1947.
The film is inspired by RS Hossain's short story Sultana's Dream, Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence and Project Dastaan's interviews with survivors of the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947.
Sultana’s Dream also presented the very welcome challenge of making our landscapes, character designs and props appropriate to their time and cultural context. This involved an immersive phase of research and art direction that guided us from pre-production till release.
The voice acting and casting came to us via Puffball Studios in Pakistan, where the VO director Rasti Farooq coordinated her team to play the ensemble of characters that make up Sultana’s Dream. As part of this cross border exchange, we had the pleasure of casting and working with Kirtana Kumar and Maaya Narrain to record voice overs for Puffball’s film Seabirds.
We worked with Project Dastaan to co-produce, direct and animate Sultana's Dream, based on a screenplay by Saadia Gardezi. This short film was an episode from an anthology called Lost Migrations, produced by Project Dastaan and funded in large part by the National Geographic Society. Project Dastaan is a collective who seek to document the stories of survivors of the India-Pakistan partition of 1947.
The film is inspired by RS Hossain's short story Sultana's Dream, Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence and Project Dastaan's interviews with survivors of the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947.
Sultana’s Dream also presented the very welcome challenge of making our landscapes, character designs and props appropriate to their time and cultural context. This involved an immersive phase of research and art direction that guided us from pre-production till release.
The voice acting and casting came to us via Puffball Studios in Pakistan, where the VO director Rasti Farooq coordinated her team to play the ensemble of characters that make up Sultana’s Dream. As part of this cross border exchange, we had the pleasure of casting and working with Kirtana Kumar and Maaya Narrain to record voice overs for Puffball’s film Seabirds.
