“Lasting Silence,” a new short film by New York Film Academy alumnus Farhan Abbas, is an Official Selection at the 9th Annual Lahore International Children’s Film Festival. Abbas graduated from NYFA’s Evening Digital Filmmaking Workshop in September 2011 while in Abu Dhabi.
The LICFF was founded in 2008 and has continued annually, presenting the best of local and international films by, for, and about the children of Pakistan. It is the largest children’s film festival in Pakistan, and showcases its selections across the country from October throughout December.
Additionally, the LICFF promotes children as filmmakers, training them in the art of filmmaking and giving them an outlet to exhibit their work. According to their threefold mission statement, this furthers their goal to nurture and inspire local filmmakers to produce more content specifically for children in Pakistan.
“Lasting Silence,” a nine-minute short directed by Abbas, who also worked on its screenplay with writer Mubashir Ali Zaidi, will screen across Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city, starting October 30.
New York Film Academy extends our warmest congratulations to Farhan and to the great work being done by the LICFF!