The Gotham Group Signs Usman Riaz, Director Of Pakistan’s Oscar Entry ‘The Glassworker’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Usman Riaz, the director, animator and co-composer of the animated feature The Glassworker, which has been selected as Pakistan’s official entry for Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars and is vying for an animated feature nomination, as well.
World premiering at Annecy, The Glassworker is the most ambitious project to date for Riaz, an artist, animator, filmmaker and composer who founded Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animation studio, Mano Animation Studios.
The film follows young Vincent and his father Tomas, who run the finest glass workshop in the country and find their lives upended by an impending war in which they want no part.
The arrival in their town of an army colonel and his young, talented violinist daughter shakes their reality and tests the relationship between father and son.
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