Jamshedpur, July 25: Nafis Mustafa directed short film “One Last Call” which was earlier selected for London Lift off International film festival is now travelling to New York AAHSFF (All American High School Film Festival). It is indeed a proud moment for the department of Mass Communication, Karim City College as the student film has been selected for the All American High school film festival.
One Last call deals with suicide prevention & depression. It was made last year for a theme-based local competition on the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day organized by the NGO – Jeevan; where it bagged the �Best Film� Award.
HOD of Department of Mass Communication, Karim City College Dr.Neha Tiwari said, �I�m glad that the film is officially selected in AAHSFF, New York. It has a very relevant subject and especially at the time of Covid-19 when we are facing so much of loneliness and depression. This small film has a big and strong message for the world. I congratulate the students for their achievement and wish them bright future.”
Nafis, semester III student of Mass Communication and Video production is a film enthusiast who has earlier made many short films like � Malady, Almost Manav Trafficked, and Rajdeep Resigned, which has been to several other film festivals. He has also been very recently a member of the Youth Jury panel at Reel Youth Film festival, Vancouver. All the short films are available on Nafis Mustafa’s and Yousuf Sarfaraz�s YouTube Channels named as the same.
Nafis says, �I�ve always been infatuated by Cinema, I never got to get myself interested much in conventional subjects, I have at times completely lost myself in the magical celluloid world, and somehow felt to give it a try, faced a lot of intimidation but Karim City College and specially our HOD Neha Mam, has always promoted and motivated us, and to the world I�d like to say what Paul McCartney said ones � he�s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a bit colder.�
One Last call, a 4 min 51 seconds film, is about a boy with poor Communication skills who feel lonely and decides to commit suicide until a phone call saves him.
The cinematography and the editing of the film were done by Yousuf Sarfaraz, a budding talented artist who has been the director of photography in almost all of the films of Nafis, who has also won several Photography Contests and has his own photography blog, he is also semester Ill student of Mass Communication.
�It was a lovely experience for me as a cinematographer to work in this film. I am very happy with the success of the film, our decision of shooting monochrome turned out to be a masterstroke”, said Yousuf.
The lead character of the film was played by Abhishek Prasad, a semester VI student Of MCVP. He said, �Depression is definitely a serious mental problem we all go through in our life. Even I have been in depression but dealt with it somehow. I am feeling very happy; it was amazing to work with them. Nafis and Yousuf both are hardworking and extremely talented artists. I would like to remember my parents and my Alma mater Holy Cross school on this occasion and of course my whole college.”
One Last call had also found the place last year in the London Lift-off International Film Festival. It was screened on Vimeo, an online & ad-free video platform, from Sep 15 to Sep 22 last year.
As a lovely gesture, the team of One Last Call would like to dedicate this achievement to Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput as a tribute who passed away last month.
