Yousaf Ali Khan

Yousaf Ali Khan was born in a estate in salford and in his early life he bought up by his mother who suffered from schizophrenia, He is mixed race is mother was English and his father was Pakistani. He and his family came under unwanted attention from the national front, which inspired him to write and direct the film "Skin deep" about a mixed race boy growing up in 1970's Britain dealing with racism.

As a child he was in and out of care and believes that keeping the family unit together is of paramount importance, even in cases where the parents struggle to look after their offspring. This could be way the family in his Oscar nominated film "Talking to angels"  is always in fear of visits from the social services and are terrified that the kids will going to care and the mother into a nursing home. These are issues he and his brothers and sisters had to go through.

Khan left school at the age of 14 with no gcses. His next project is a feature film about Jewish children who miraculously escaped the horrors of belsen in the holocaust. With him being Muslim, his partner producer being hindu and the film being mainly funded by Palestinian business man is shows his intent to unite people through his movies and this  didn’t go unnoticed this is a  factor why he was featured in the screens international "stars of tomorrow" short list

Khan rarely talks about his personal life but from what we know, we see his childhood plays a big factor in his movies. His films haves are realistic yet they have a sense of surrealism with camera shots and techniques. The surrealism normally represents what is in the character mind , some film critivs believe he focuses on the mind so much because his mother was in a constant battle with her