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"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

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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

STTP - BEST EXPERIMENTAL - Winner Laurel
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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

seedling.tf@gmail.com

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)

WORK STILLS

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