Surviving Money and the Financial System

"Surviving Money and the Financial System - and What Women can do about it”  was a series of three-part video presentation prepared specially for the AWID conference in Istanbul in April 2012 on the demystification of money and banking and how they really operate. It was made for an in-depth economic session on how money …

Why An Acre for Every Woman – Documentary

This documentary was screened last year in Lahore as part of "An Acre for Every Woman" campaign started by Najma Sadeque under the Green Economics Initiative, Shirkat Gah in 2005. Still not complete, it was  viewed with several of my other documentary-shorts and how-to films on environment and green economics through a women's perspective. I …

Realities from the Field with a Gender Specialist

During my travels in the interior, I came across many such women, many I felt were at the bottom of the food chain. Despite numerous efforts for their upliftment, the government hasn’t made much of a dent. Perhaps no one can tell us better than a Gender Specialist who has worked in the field with …

2011 Year of the Forest – Critical for Pakistan – Urdu

Last month I'd uploaded a short by the same name which I'd originally made for a presentation last year. I received several suggestions that it would be a good idea to make it in Urdu as well. So here it is the Urdu version of the presentation "Year of the Forest - Critical for Pakistan." …

2011 Year of the Forests – critical for Pakistan

2011 has been declared the International Year of the Forests. For today's Earth Day, I've uploaded a short presentation I'd made last year on how easy and economical it is to plant a tree and for everyone to get involved. Planting a single tree sampling should be regarded as a short term investment which will …

Kahani Aik Si – Documentary about millions of women in Pakistan’s informal work sector

Kahani Aik Si This documentary launched in 2008 is about the millions of women in our country - the poor majority - who toil all their lives to give the privileged minority a world of good food, beautiful clothes, colourful ornaments and spacious homes.....and yet get none of it themselves. An estimated 40-45 million women …

Review in English Daily Dawn on “A People’s Untold History”

Zubaida Mustafa, one of the country's leading senior journalists writes about my documentary in DAWN Editorial Page of 26th January, 2011.Telling the untold storyPEARL S. Buck, the American author who rose to fame because of her graphic and insightful novels on pre-revolutionary China, once remarked, “If you want to understand today, you have to search …

“A People’s Untold History” my feature length documentary

My documentary "A People's Untold History was launched and screened in Lahore on the 2nd December, 2010 at the HRCP Auditorium, hosted by Heinrich Boell Stiftung and Shirkat Gah Green Economics Initiative. "An Untold People's History" is a full-length documentary on the story of the ordinary people of Pakistan and how successive policies impacted on …

Selling Another Piece of Our World/Karachi

This was my first documentary made for Shirkat Gah Green Economics Initiative/Pakistan Mahigeer Tehreek. This is a half hour documentary is two parts. The first part was made in 2006 and the 2nd part in 2007 and updated with new info in 2008. Part 1 - The people:From Pilgrimage to Protest Karachi was originally a …

The Indus Delta & The Women of the Sea

A short on the shrinking Indus Delta used for advocacy on climate change. The Women of the Sea A short on the socio-economic conditions of the "invisible" fisherfolk women who are a dying breed due to globalizaton. About women living in coastal Karachi and how their lives have been effected by international policies.