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  

bibliography

bibliography:

• youtube.com
•  yousef khan-http://film.guardian.co.uk/afterdark/story/0,,1449133,00.html
• oscar-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Live_Action_Short_Film
• cfilm review-http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=10070
• yousef khan-http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/directors/?id=D5D44D5202b6219733NtYqFA0A71
• film festival-http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/

The Stairwell- directed by shane meadow

• The film was filmed on a mobilephone which shows you dont need expensive equipment to makes a short film 
• mise-ene-scene is in the typical style of shane meadow its is gritty, run down and urban 
• the lighting naturalistic and very dark which adds a sense of mystery to the films ad makes it tense 
• The music is dramatic and bulids up tension, whilst giving us the feeling something bad is about to happen 
• challenges our expections of the film with the anti climax ending 
• Diffrents shots,angles and cuts makes the film more intresting and also adds the tension 
• we have a sense of mystrey from the start because we cant really see the mans face to his identity is hidden

Shane meadows

Shne meadows is one the uk's best short film, He was born in the midlands in england, he was born in the early 70s. He dropped out of school before getting is o-levels and he thought he would bulid himself as a career in crime, which quickly he found out he wasn't cut out for it.

In 1994 shane meadows got his hands on a video camera and editingequipment by voluntering his services a nottingham based intermedia film and video ltd, in return they allowed him to borrow what he need. Meadow started to experinement with making films and asking friends and family to be in them, who were at firsy wary. but as Shane started to make more movies, his family and friends were impressed and become more enthusatic to be in them. He began doing as many as 1 short film a month and him and hisfriends started of there own film festival which later became an international and is now called "Flip side".

His first film to catch the attension of the film industrey was "where's the money, Ronni?". The film got him recongnation amoong the film world and channel four give him the opportunity to makeshort documentary "King of the gypsies" about shanes friends bartley gorman for the channel four "battered briton" series

Since then shane meadow has become well known for his grown breaking feature film " This is england" in which the film portrays a England in the times of high racial tensions, he then filmed a set of hour long tv drama called " this is england 86". Shane still does short films and also tries to help new film makers, he even did a a video master class on filmmaking called " Shaynes World"

He still does short film and sticks too his kitchen sink realism that he he in reknown for. This shown in his settings and his style of filming he deals with various issues buts mixes a humour into it. He focuses on real issues big and small , from the national front to bumping into someone. He doesn't really focus on the surreal but one thing he does focus on his england and more specific the  working class.