Rumi | A Budding Actress Experiences the Problems with a Troubling Industry.

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When Rumi, a budding actress, is scouted by an agent and invited to an open casting call, she comes face to face with a deeply problematic and troubling industry. A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. ✨ JOIN US ON SHORTVERSE: https://www.shortverse.com/ 🎬 SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ 📷 Rumi Dir. Aisha Amin www.aishaamin.com Rumi is a young aspiring actress, so when she gets street cast and invited to a photoshoot, how could she possibly turn that opportunity down? However, the confidence boost that comes from that recognition slowly turns into an insidious humiliation. In Rumi, writer/director Aisha Amin cleverly sheds light on one of the many problematic sides of the fashion industry, with a subtle approach that grasps her titular character’s emotional journey through that experience. When we asked Amin what prompted her to pen the screenplay, she shared with us that what initiated the project was the hypocrisy of “the emergence of headscarves in a number of designer collections” at a Paris Fashion Week, when religious signs, thus hijabs, are forbidden in French schools. “Making Rumi was my attempt to investigate the experience of being a Muslim woman in an industry built around appearances, performance and tokenism”, she added. Following some research into the modeling world, Amin discovered that “certain behaviors are pushed under the rug in the name of ‘fashion’” and from there her narrative was

Published 2023-07-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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