Zam Naqvi: Film Director | Freelance Writing

1. ZAM NAQVI ZAM NAQVI

2. About ZAM NAQVI Zam Naqvi is a film director and writer who has a wealth of knowledge of the film industry. After training at HB studios NYC and gaining a Postgraduate from The Courtyard Theatre in London, Zam was commissioned to write the comic book trilogy “Signs and Voices”, which was then selected for the B3 Talent Campus 2014 for further development into a game. In 2015, Zam was the recipient of the Creative Skillset Diversity Fund for further training at The London Film School.Screenwriter, Film and Documentary making, Zam was also a participant in The Screenwriter’ Talent campus.

3. Guillermo’s Monster in “The Shape of Water”.

4. Guillermo’s Monster in “The Shape of Water”. “Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was… an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.” – Guillermo Del Toro. This is about the story of a voiceless orphan Elisa, who works as a cleaner in the top secret government laboratory wherein she falls in love with a sea monster when a suspicious delivery arrives and she had to clean the room in which the monster is housed. They come from completely different world’s and can only communicate through signing to each other in an environment that is hostile to them both. Guillermo through his monster facilitates the classic immigrant story, post arrival and pre-acceptance if indeed that is a fully attainable “goal” or “privilege”.

5. The hostility of the new world, different language, a new way of life, coupled with a suspicion of being newcomers speaking in foreign tongues perfectly reflects the current refugee crisis and the treatment of millions of displaced people who have left their homes, with many of then swept up onto our shore’s at times dead on arrival. Many of those who do survive are stigmatised by the press and communities and others who are living in a culture of fear against the new wave of immigrants.These “outsiders” are real and exist in abundance. The art direction also help transport us into this dark, beautiful fairy tale with performances from Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and Doug Jones as the sea monster. Guillermo is fully intent on achieving his goal this time with his sea monster who “gets” his girl, offering us a glimmer of hope for the future. Many more blogs are in pipeline…….. Freelance Writing