{"id":5960,"date":"2022-12-06T03:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2022-12-10T03:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:19:16","slug":"hollywood-reporter-joyland-12-6-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/hollywood-reporter-joyland-12-6-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyland director Saim Sadiq describes how facing censorship in Pakistan \u2014 despite the film being his country\u2019s Oscar submission for international feature \u2014 has forced him to be an activist for his art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hollywood<\/p>\n

\u2018There\u2019s No Room for a Quiet Person\u2019 <\/h1>\n

Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq assumed that when he completed his debut feature, Joyland \u2014 which took him more than six years to develop, write, shoot and edit \u2014 his work on the project would essentially be done. He was, unfortunately, mistaken. Joyland
\ntells the story of the Ranas, a large family living in the heart of bustling Lahore. While the family yearns for the birth of a male grandson, the soft-spoken youngest son, who has a sweet but asexual relationship with a wife
\nby arranged marriage, secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theater, where he falls for a trans starlet. As their romance blossoms, strains emerge within the family, illuminating how each of them might belonging for a form of sexual rebellion of their own \u2014 outside the
\nbounds of traditional patriarchy. Joyland was selected by the Pakistani Academy Selection Committee as the country\u2019s official submission, but the film\u2019s reception in its native country has been fraught. On Nov. 11, a week before its scheduled national release, the national film board bowed to pressure from conservative groups and decertified the film, saying it was \u201cdamaging to the nation\u2019s moral fabric.\u201d Sadiq, his actors, producers and industry allies sprang into action, marshaling support for the film.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 16, a committee launched by Pakistan\u2019s prime minister\u2019s office reapproved the film. Sadiq\u2019s moment of celebration was brief, however. On Nov. 17, the censorship committee of Punjab \u2014 Pakistan\u2019s largest province, where over 70 percent of the country\u2019s cinemas are located and where Joyland is set \u2014 announced that it would ban the film within its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Now, Sadiq and his allies believe their only hope is that the film will become Pakistan\u2019s first Oscar.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article via pdf copy of The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018There\u2019s No Room for a Quiet Person\u2019 Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq assumed that when he completed his debut feature, Joyland \u2014 which took him more than six years to develop, write, shoot and edit \u2014 his work on the project would essentially be done. He was, unfortunately, mistaken. Joyland tells the story of the Ranas,
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