"I MAKE IDEAS. YUM!"
NISRIN
AZIZ
[ ARTIST ]
WRITER • FILMMAKER • AD-MAKER • FOREST GIRL • STORYTELLER • MIND READER
Nisrin Aziz is a writer & filmmaker who’s been practicing the art of selling ideas since 2007, and has since founded The Fictionary, a film production house and idea studio based out of India.
Using creative therapy, concept-consciousness and jam sessions as tools for inspiration, her work over the years has been a study of the specific aspects of culture, psychology and consumerism in media today.
With a background in Wildlife & Conservation, Journalism, Advertising, Mass Communication, Culture Studies, Literature, Psychology and Filmmaking across her education and career, she promotes the intention of sustaining ideas for positive change among artists within the independent, advertising and mainstream film communities worldwide.
Nisrin’s body of work includes reporting for The Hindu & Vijay Times newspapers, music videos like Raja Kumari’s Bindis and Bangles (2020) and Kiss Nuka’s Don’t Be Afraid (2019), feature length films like What Are The Odds (2019), Fitoor (2016) found on Netflix and award winning advertisements like Ariel’s Share the Load (2016) to name a few.
She currently lives between Bangalore and Mumbai, India.
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Words are like magic -
Illustrations, your subconscious -
And the film makes everything real -
No matter the subject, no matter your role in it, no matter the difficulties you endure creatively or constructively while making them.
The first step in any form of visual artistry is to understand your aesthetic. And to protect it like it is the end of the world. I found mine years ago when I was growing up in Bangalore city on a healthy diet of World Cinema and Wildlife Conservation. And even today I nurse it at my altar.
To be able experiment with the new, you need to know what is already done. My formal education had me studying Human Psychology, Literature and Communication in my graduate and post-graduate degrees. My personal education on the other hand, has me marinating in stories of brilliant, fantastical scapes, green wanderlust, absurdism, surrealism, uncontaminated perspectives of children who are unconcerned by the ways of our world, forlorn lovers, animal instincts, the shapes of the universe as we know it and the unfound wells of pure, subconscious creativity.
I know.. it is a wholesome mishmash of delicate and yet delicious subject matters.
I spend all my time with these themes at The Fictionary where we apply apply apply and help underline and hone our collective aesthetic towards the betterment of Art and Advertising in our world today.
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SEEDLING
Created by NISRIN AZIZ
Performed by Kannakee Bhuyan
Cinematography by Deval Samanta & Mindaugas Malakauskas
Music by Postcards
Production Design by Quentin Van Houtte
Colourist Asna Khan
Produced by Adil Aziz
In Association with The Fictionary
Special Thanks to Monisha Thyagarajan, Apoorva Bakshi & Edwin Wiesenhahn
Seedling is a poem.
It was born while being boxed in a tiny apartment within a super populated megacity during lockdown. Without access to any greenery, without having my head under a sky and without my feet on grass for months altogether.
Seedling was written in a moment when a rose plant in my window threw a shadow of a rose bloom on the palm of my hand. There was such a sudden rush of emotion that took over, a revelation almost, that I just needed to spill it out and communicate what I felt.
The experience of Seedling is a resonation of a connection to our Earth Mother. A desperation to be closer to her. An almost divine reverie of being one with our planet.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Short to the Point, Bucharest, Romania
Official Selection Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Lisbon, Portugal
Official Selection Essex Doc Fest, Essex, UK
Official Selection MicroActs Artist Film Festival, London, UK
Official Selection Gold Movie Awards, London, UK
Official Selection Flickfair, Los Angeles, USA
Official Selection Frostbite International Indie Fest, Colorado, USA
Official Selection Lift-Off Sessions, UK
Quarter-Finalist at Online Isolation Short Videos Festival, Moscow, Russia
Official Selection Dumbo Film Festival, New York
Official Selection Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
Official Selection Etowah Film Festival, Georgia, USA
Semi-Finalist at We Make Films Festival, London, UK
Official Selection Videodance, Valencia, Spain
Showcase at New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Indiana, USA
Showcase at Bedroom Artists, London, UK
BEHIND THE SCENES
To host the film on your website, social media platform, film festival, artist showcase, please get in touch below.
Producer | Adil Aziz | +91 9980728644
Disclaimer: Seedling is a non-profit endeavour by the makers. No charges will be levied for its screening. Kindly do not publish the film without crediting the artists involved.
AWARDS
MANIPAL
UNIVERSITY
2010
GOLD MEDALIST
Excellence in Media & Film
SHORT TO THE POINT 2020
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Seedling
Category: Film (Short Form)
CLIO SPORTS
2018
BRONZE WINNER
Reebok #BruisesCanBeGood
Category: Film (Short Form)
DECCAN HERALD 2010
AWARD WINNER
Excellence in Print Media & Journalism
CANNES GLASS LION
2016
AWARD WINNER
P&G "Ariel Matic"
#SharetheLoad Campaign
LAS VEGAS FESTIVAL
2016
III PLACE WINNER
Chevrolet #DayItForward
CLIO SPORTS
2018
GOLD WINNER
Reebok #BruisesCanBeGood
(Category: Public Relations)
17th INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS
BEST CONCEPT
Don't Be Afraid ~ Kiss Nuka
(Category: Short Form Video)