page_title: Aneel Ahmad
section_title: 2007
hierarchical_section_title: Aneel Ahmad / Shooting abroad / 2007
caption_attribution_description: English: Directors stills
context_page_description: Aneel Ahmad is a British filmmaker, writer, film director, and producer
context_section_description: Boot Polish UK Film Council North West Vision Media 
  A shoeshine boy on the dusty streets of Lahore dreams of rescuing a beautiful courtesan. Boot Polish is a film about dreams. Barbar and Lalita work side by side in the dusty streets of Lahore. Barbar is a shoeshine boy and Lalita a local courtesan, a girl prized for her beauty and grace. Barbar dreams of rescuing Lalita from the poverty that traps them both. One day, he's pushed to the edge.
  Ahmad made his third short film with North West Vision as part of the new Lottery-funded UK Film Council Digital Shorts Scheme"Boot Polish". With a production budget of 18,000 pounds.
  Boot Polish has been classed as one of the first British cross genre Bollywood films, similar to the feature film by Danny Boyle titled Slumdog Millionaire creating a mixture of reality & Bollywood.
  The film was shot in Lahore, Pakistan in 2006 and was screened worldwide to a number of film festivals within 2007/09.
  Boot Polish was co-produced with Ahmad by (BAFTA) British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning short Producer Kelly Broad.
  In 2007, Aneel Ahmad & his film Boot Polish were shortlisted top 20 finalists, for one of the world's most prestigious Incircle Grant Schemes at the Abu Dhabi Middle East Film Festival
  2007 Boot Polish won best cinematography award for the short film category at the (BET) Black Entertainment Television BFM Festival
  2008 Boot Polish and Waiting For Sunrise were preserved for the nation by the British Film Institute for national archive.
  2008 Boot Polish won best foreign film at the Route 66 film festival in the US. The festival has been credited as one of the 25 festivals worth the fee in MovieMaker Magazine.
  2008 Boot Polish won a gold medal for excellence in music short film award 2008 5th Annual Park City Music Festival held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah US.
caption: Director Asif Kapadia & Aneel Ahmad Jerwood Space 2010
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