Film on Vaccine Hesitancy Wins Award in Turkey
Islamabad: The Unmasking, a 15-minute long, Pakistani short film on Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy has won the best foreign short film award in Istanbul, Turkey.
The film has been directed by Khalid Hasan Khan, an award winning filmmaker, who earlier had won the best film award for his debut feature film, ‘HOTEL’ at the Delhi International Film Festival in 2013.
Unmasking deals with the subject of covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, at the same time dismissed social media myths causing a slow vaccination rate around the world especially in developing countries.
The short film is purely a work of fiction and tackles the anti-vax message that is being peddled to misguide the mass population from availing the benefits of the current vaccination program.
Khalid Hasan Khan has produced documentaries like “An Early Sunset”; on the lost glory of Lyari footballers, telecast on Ten Sports: “Iron Slaves”; about the lives of ship breakers of Gaddani, an Official Selection of “Workers of the World United Film Festival, Broadway, New York: Murder of Mystic; about the devastation of the Indus Delta mangroves, selected by “DC Environmental Film Fest” for “Green Short Films”.
