'I think this idea of who should have those opportunities is something that we need to re-evaluate and look at.'
The Big Picture One of the biggest highlights of a film festival? Finding a wildly talented first-time feature director with a unique vision and a firm understanding of how to execute it. One of those directors at TIFF 2023? The Queen of My Dreams director Fawzia Mirza.
I do think that I recommend maybe your first feature that you direct be in one country? Maybe! You know what I'm saying? I mean, it worked for us, but I have this incredible superhero of a cast and incredible producers and a team, but maybe one country, a few locations … [Laughs]MIRZA: [Laughs] Exterior, night, one place, one house. And also I was so lucky, my wife/producer [Andria Wilson Mirza] said, “Let's get it funded in Canada.
I don’t mean to cut you off, Hamza, but I want to follow up on that. Fawzia, how do you do that? What is the secret sauce? What would you say to another female director out there who wants to be able to create that same kind of space and command on a film? Amrit, to build on this idea of using experience to deliver really good work, I believe this is your first lead role in a major feature film – a very, very ambitious project to do that with.
MIRZA: The thing that struck me when I met Amrit on a Zoom – we Zoom auditioned the first time and then we met in person – was this spark. When she is in, she is all in, and not just 100%, it's like, add three zeroes to that, which I don’t even know. I’m terrible at math so I don’t know what that equals. But a lot! It's a lot of percent! There's no halfway. And so when you come in and you're the one who's like, “This is my project. I'm obsessed with this.
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