Young Muslim Filmmaker Produces Video for Urban Youth
The other day I got an email that stated the following;
Salaams Brother Belal,
My name is Kashif Pasta and I’m a 17-year-old Muslim filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada.
First off, I wanted to thank you for all that you’ve done so far in the English-Islamic media space. I am especially excited to see Tufaan, which looks like a fantastic doc that really has the potential to change a lot of lives.
I am emailing you because this past summer I was involved in a issue-based Arts initiative called the Surrey Urban Youth Project. All participants were allowed to do a project using any art form they felt comfortable with to encourage discussion about issues that affected them. Being a filmmaker, I, of course, took this opportunity to use film to convey my message.
When it came down to doing the project and I had decided that the idea of a short film was out of reach at that moment, I remembered how hard-hitting and great your Leechon GemReels were. So I decided to take that as inspiration and do my own! The film got a great response at the live show we did, and ended up on TV that night since there was a pretty big station was in attendance that enjoyed it. Anyways, i just wanted to send the link your way for you to take a look at, thanks for your time and all your effort!
Assalamu Alaikum,
-Kashif Pasta
The following video titled, “To Know One Another” is what Kashif produced.
Jazakallahu Khairun for your kind words Kashif. The honor is mine, kowing that I’ve helped inspire someone along the way and inshaAllah that inspiration will lead to other people doing positive things to benefit Islam, Muslims and humanity.
Check out Kashif’s other work and give him continued encouragement to progress in his work:
- Kashif’s personal portfolio kashifpasta.com
- “Company” website – mkpmedia.net
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ahmed eid Says:
That was pretty good…
Good job Kashif
Muhammad G Says:
Assalamu Alaicom Wa Rahmatu Allah
Very nice beginning
But how about girls and music ?!
Kashif P Says:
Wow, I knew you were going to plug gme in a blog post, I didn’t think it’d be a post about me!
Jazakaalah Khair for the inspiration and linkage!
@MUHAMMAD G – ah yes, I knew this would come up. The ideal here was to shoot at the mosque + school like I originally planned, but the reality was that they enforced the rule that everything and everyone in it must be a part of the Surrey Urban Youth Project, and, unfortunately, there were neither enough guys nor any girls with hijab to make it possible. Going with the idea that most people have seen girls before, I figured it would be better to just make it at that late stage then to not do anything at all. In the end, I’m not learned enough to be able to properly explain to the heads of the Program why this would be an issue, and, to be honest, I was running out of time
As for music, I don’t really want to get into that debate – again, I’m not learned enough to be debating anything, but we did try to keep it minimal, it contributed to the emotion, and, without it, the sound is actually pretty choppy. The music smoothes over many sharp jumps in background noise.
But Jazkallah Khair brother Muhammad, that kind of feedback obviously helps with future videos. Then feedback on those, and more improvements on the next one, etc.
-Kashif
Mohamad Says:
It is good. You could of improved on the camera shakes. And the volume wasn’t equal sometimes the volume was high and sometimes it was low. This would make it more professional. And it really looks like some people are reading out of paper. I don’t have anything against that Idea but avoid showing it in your production.