Producer Akbar Allana revealed that Pakistani film Rani won a Special Jury Award for Impact at the Asia Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film details the struggle of a transgender person in Pakistan, who decides to become a productive member of a society that has been traditionally unfair to the trans community.
After winning a European award and numerous other accolades in various film festivals around the world over, Rani made its way to the Asia Pacific Film Festival in LA.
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BBC World News featured the social drama last year.
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About Rani and Its Themes
The film Rani cast an actual transgender artist Kami Sid for the role of a transgender. In the film, Kami Sid essays the role of a transperson who refuses to earn a living in a socially unacceptable way. Rather than becoming a performer like the rest of the trans-community, Rani decides to eck out a respectable living as a laborer.
Director Hammad Rizvi tackled the sensitive topic with care and it shows.
Recently Hammad Rizvi also won the NBC Universal Short Film Award in Los Angeles for the best outstanding writer.
Plot
Rani follows the story of a transperson who is intent on raising an abandoned child, despite the practice being considered a social taboo.
The short film created a lot of hype last year and is not about to slow down anytime soon.
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Besides being written and directed by acclaimed Hammad Rizvi, Rani was produced by Rizvilia Productions and Gray Scale.
